A Message to Garcia Being a Preachment

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You, reader, put this matter to a test: You are sitting now in your office--six clerks are within call.

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Summon any one and make this request: On your life he will not. He will look at you out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the following questions:. And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions, and explained how to find the information, and why you want it, the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia--and then come back and tell you there is no such man. Of course I may lose my bet, but according to the Law of Average I will not.

Now, if you are wise, you will not bother to explain to your "assistant" that Correggio is indexed under the C's, not in the K's, but you will smile very sweetly and say, "Never mind," and go look it up yourself. And this incapacity for independent action, this moral stupidity, this infirmity of the will, this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold and lift--these are the things that put pure Socialism so far into the future.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

A first mate with knotted club seems necessary; and the dread of getting "the bounce" Saturday night holds many a worker to his place. Advertise for a stenographer, and nine out of ten who apply can neither spell nor punctuate--and do not think it necessary to. We have recently been hearing much maudlin sympathy expressed for the "downtrodden denizens of the sweat-shop" and the "homeless wanderer searching for honest employment," and with it all often go many hard words for the men in power.

Nothing is said about the employer who grows old before his time in a vain attempt to get frowsy ne'er-do-wells to do intelligent work; and his long, patient striving with "help" that does nothing but loaf when his back is turned. In every store and factory there is a constant weeding-out process going on.

The employer is continually sending away "help" that have shown their incapacity to further the interests of the business, and others are being taken on. No matter how good times are, this sorting continues: It is the survival of the fittest. Your request to send this item has been completed. Citations are based on reference standards.

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Would you also like to submit a review for this item? You already recently rated this item. Your rating has been recorded. One of these was George H. Daniels , a promotion-minded executive with the New York Central Railroad. Daniels reprinted the essay hundreds of thousands of times as part of the railroad's Four-Track Series of pamphlets.

Hubbard's Roycroft Press, the publishing arm of an arts and crafts community he founded in East Aurora, New York, reprinted and sold the essay in a variety of bindings—suede, embossed, paperback, and so on—and as paid promotional literature for organizations as disparate as Wanamaker's department store, the Boy Scouts of America , and the United States Navy.

Modern editions are readily available today on the Internet. Calixto Garcia, a leader of the Cuban insurgents. How the 'fellow by the name of Rowan' took the letter, sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the Island, having traversed a hostile country on foot, and delivered his letter to Garcia — are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail.

In fact, the only true statement Hubbard wrote was that Rowan "landed Wagner , head of the Military Information Division , who successfully petitioned Adj. Henry Clark Corbin for permission to send spies to Cuba and Puerto Rico to gather military information.

Wagner selected forty-year-old 1st Lt. Rowan to join Gen. Rowan's assignment was to keep the War Department informed as to "the strength, efficiency, movements and general military situation.

He added that he was eager to return to the U. A passing sponging steamer carried them to Nassau, and from there they eventually sailed to Tampa, arriving on May Rowan had no sooner landed in Cuba on April 25 than details of his secret mission were splashed across the pages of America's newspapers.

It was learned that, while in Jamaica, Rowan had revealed this information to an Associated Press correspondent named Elmer Roberts. Had the news reports not made Rowan a popular hero, however falsely, Corbin might have had him court-martialed.

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Miles , commanding general of the army, and temporarily promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the 6th Regiment Volunteer Infantry. In , Hubbard claimed the essay had been reprinted over forty million times. In an oft-repeated story, Hubbard wrote that during the time "Mr.

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