CLARA BARTON, President, Red Cross. Respect for the rights of others is peace. BENITO JUAREZ, President, Republic of Mexico. The history of a country is _mainly_ the history of wars. CLARA BARTON. Men have worshipped at Valkyria’s shrine and followed her siren lead until war has cost a million times more than the whole world is worth; poured out the best blood and crushed the finest forms that God has ever created. CLARA BARTON. There is in the Red Cross no entangling alliances that any but a barbarian at war can feel any restraint. CLARA BARTON. There is not a peace society on the face of the earth today, nor can there be one, so potent, so effectual against war as the Red Cross of Geneva. CLARA BARTON. There can be no estimate of the misery assuaged, and the deaths prevented, by the unselfish zeal and devotion of the Red Cross. CLARA BARTON. Your children and your children’s children will need the Red Cross, when your hands are powerless to do that which is within your grasp. CLARA BARTON. OPPOSITION—THE AMERICAN RED CROSS “COMPLETE VICTORY” She had served in Europe with a brassard on her arm; she had served in the camp, on the march, in the hospital, in the smoke of battle; she had bound up the wounds, soothed in a foreign tongue the dying; and there had learned her first Red Cross lessons. She had visited the Solferino battle ground where Dunant caught the humane inspiration for relieving distress of victims in war. She had breathed the spirit of great minds in the Red Cross world movement. She was armed _cap-a-pie_ for a humane warfare. She made a vow, “If I live——;”—the vow of woman is a decree, unrecorded. Since 1864 the Red Cross measure had been before the American people. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, of more than national fame as a diplomat and humanitarian, through a period of ten years had failed of a respectful consideration. For nearly two decades man had failed—signally failed; what could woman do?