Army $2,031,120.00 Navy 60,120.00 Red Cross 138,960.00 ————————————— 12,546 nurses—Total cost $2,230,200.00 As to the work of the American Red Cross Clara Barton says: “History records the wonderful achievements of the Red Cross, the greatest of relief organizations, though it cannot record the untold suffering which has been averted by it.” As to the Red Cross war-nursing, she says: “There can be no estimate of the misery assuaged and the deaths prevented by the unselfish zeal and devotion of the nurses of the Red Cross.” In prophecy she says: And what would they do if war came again? The scarlet cross floats where all was blank then. They would bind on their “brassards” and march to the fray. And the man liveth not who could say to them nay; They would stand with you now, as they stood with you then,— The nurses, consolers, and saviours of men. LXXVII Clara Barton started the Red Cross alone. Boston (Mass.) _Transcript_. Miss Clara Barton, the American Red Cross is your society alone, and none other we will patronize. G. MOYNIER, President, International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, Switzerland. The total expense connected with the acceptance of the Treaty by this Government, in addition to the personal service of more than five years, was defrayed individually by Clara Barton. Red Cross Committee (in 1903). House Document No. 552, Vol. 49, 58th Cong. If we heed the teachings of history we shall not forget that in the life of every nation circumstances may arise when a resort to arms can alone save it from dishonor.—We must be prepared to enforce any policy which we think it wise to adopt. CHESTER A. ARTHUR, The President. (In advocacy before Congress of Clara Barton’s Red Cross Measure). Legislation by Congress is needful to accomplish the humane end that your society has in view. It gives me, however, great pleasure, Miss Barton, to state that I shall be happy to give any (Red Cross) measure which you may propose careful attention and consideration. JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State (in 1881). The first official advocate of the Red Cross measure, and fearless friend from its presentation in 1877, was Omar D. Conger, now Senator from Michigan, then a member of the House. CLARA BARTON (Sept. 6, 1882). [Illustration: JAMES A. GARFIELD The President, March 4, 1881–September 19, 1881. Executive Mansion. Will the Secretary of State please hear Miss Barton on the subject herein referred to? J. A. GARFIELD. The first tribute to Clara Barton in her Red Cross measure, March 30, 1881.