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Show HONORS CLARA BARTON. Congress Should. Also Honor Our Heroic He-roic Sisters of Charity. Senator Mason, at the request of tVie Spanish war veterans, is to offer a resolution in congress tendering the thanks of the nation and a gold medal to Clara Barton for her, services to the sick and wounded soldiers. Commenting Comment-ing on this proposed and well deserved honor, Father Cronin in his Union and Times, very justly and pertinently remarks: 'We have not the slightest objection to any public honors that may be "conferred "con-ferred upon this, humane woman and her worthy associates. But why confine con-fine those contemplated honors to Miss Barton? Why exclude the heroic Sisters Sis-ters of the Catholic church, who promptly tendered their services to the government to nurse the sick, tend the wounded and the dying: and turned their flourishing academies into hospitals hos-pitals for government use? Are their sacrifices deserving of no consideration in this matter? They do things differently differ-ently in France, where for similar services ser-vices Catholic Sisters have been decorated deco-rated with the Cross of the Legion of i Honor even by semi-infidel rulers." We think the Catholic Sisters are themselves to blame, more than any one else, for the non-recognition of their services during both the war of secession and the Spanish war. In their humility they shrink from the publicity and applause which their good works would bring them, and prefer pre-fer that their labors should be considered consid-ered as a matter of course, and calling call-ing for no special recognition. When Mr. Barton of Philadelphia was preparing pre-paring his "History, of the Work of the Catholic Sisterhoods During the War," it was with the greatest difficulty diffi-culty that he could eet the Sisters to give an account of their labors for publication. pub-lication. Freeman's Journal. |