Clara Barton’s slogan: “People’s Help for National Needs.” The American Red Cross (1896) never appeals for, nor solicits, aid for any purpose. CLARA BARTON. The Red Cross has received nothing from the Government. No fund has been created for it. CLARA BARTON. Not a penny of tax, nor dues, has ever been asked for the expenses of the National Red Cross. CLARA BARTON. Every dollar and every pound that has been received by the Red Cross has been the free-will offering of the people, given for humanity without solicitation and disbursed without reward. CLARA BARTON. The greatest work performed by the Red Cross has consisted in the education of the peoples along the lines of humanity. CLARA BARTON. The Red Cross was “her child,” and Clara Barton naturally and willingly provided for it. _Heroines of Modern Progress._ When the Government accepted the Red Cross, perhaps a bit arrogantly, I felt that my end was accomplished and I was ready to give it up. CLARA BARTON. The Red Cross “opposes the arms of humanity to the arms of violence.” CLARA BARTON. Antagonistic to nothing the Red Cross can know neither jealousies nor rivalry. CLARA BARTON. The future of the Red Cross will be worthy of the labors and sacrifices in which it originated. CLARA BARTON. But for the never-ending kindly words that bade me strive on, I fear I should have been inclined to give up the fight. CLARA BARTON. For me I had few words of prayerful gratitude and many memories of the long years of patient watching that had brought the American Red Cross even up to the point it had attained. CLARA BARTON. NOT THE VALUE OF A POSTAGE STAMP In 1902 a party of friends visited Clara Barton in her Glen Echo Red Cross home. In our party were two gentlemen from Mexico. One of the latter, an Englishman, had lived in the “Land of the Montezumas” for many years. He described to Miss Barton the people, their peculiar customs, their love of music and the other arts, their beautiful Moorish architecture, their lofty mountains and fertile valleys. Then he portrayed the characteristics of Porfirio Diaz, the then popular ruler of the Mexican Republic. Miss Barton was much interested. She said that for some time she had been doing what she could to get the Mexican Government to organize, under the Geneva Convention, a Red Cross Society. With the tact of a diplomat and the strategy of a general she laid out her plan of campaign. She asserted that in no other country could so much good be done by the Red Cross as in Mexico.