Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1897 — THE RED CROSS SOCIETY. [ARTICLE]

THE RED CROSS SOCIETY.

(•■a. of Its Labors Since Its Organbutton aS Ts«rs Ago. Ths ergiaiuttoa known as the Bed Cross Is ths result of treaty of Geneva, and has for Its obJeot the prevention or amelioration of suffering incurred In war. >ll military hospitals under Its flag are Aeutral, and oanaot be attacked or captured. Burgeons, nurses, chaplains, attendants,* and all non-combatants wearing Its badge, all supplies, and whatever else, under Its can, are likewise protected. In this country K fctt a civil branch, known as the American Amendment, which other countries are adopting, and which provides relief against woes arising from fire, flood, pestilence and other national calamities. As late as the Crimean war, civil help for military necessities was unknown, and Florence Nightingale walked Into a pathless Held. In our own civil war relief was afforded by ths Sanitary and Christian commissions. The Red Cross became active Irst In the Franco-Ger-man war of 1870-1, and the ■Jinni* of that war were not stained by any recerd of needless Inhumanity eg cruelty to wounded or alek. Bines then no war between nations within the treaty has taken place in which the Red Cross has not done Ha work, maintained its position and been respected. Under the American Amendment it has a share, according to Miss Clara Barton, its originator and leading spirit, In relief work in the case of the forest fine of Michigan in 1881; the overflow of the Mississippi In 1882? the drought of Texas in 1886; the relief of the sufferers from the Mount Vernon cyclone in 1888; ths yellow fever epidemic In Florida In 1888; the Johnstown disaster In 1889; the Russian famine In 1891-92; and the hurricane and tidal wave of the South Carolina sea island coast In 1898. M. It has also, during that taken part In several International bots meats.