Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-11-01
81 was going to saw that, speaking

nonsense to say that N class off
Dor should be as well compensated
as another, Honestly now?"
The author sat back in his chair
and gazed across the table at his sec
rotary. Finally, he said
My dear SERVER, you can't really
mean what you say. You know that
l hold that all classes of laborshould
have exactly, the same compensa
ton! The miner the blacksmith, the
preacher, the president, the postal
clerk, the author, the printer-yes,
the man who sweeps out the office,
or who polishes boots, should each
share alike, OF this world were whatit
should be-yeS, what it will be.
Why. SERVER, you surely couldn't
have read my book"
Read it. why, hang it, | wrote
it."
You wrote it. The deucoyou did.
always thought was the author
Of
$50 YOU are. But didn't l take it
all down in shorthand, and whack it
cut on the typewriter, and didn't |
go ove the proof sheets with you.
And yet you ask me if l have read
it,"
"Oh yes, quite right, l see what
much attention to tine arguments as
you did to the autography, l should
think you would not ask if | really
meant what l said in the book"
20, | suppose you meant it all
right enougL-in a way-in theory,
perhaps, but"
My dear sir, allow me to saythat
a theory that is not practical is no
theory at all. The great success OF
Gazing Upward has been due to
the fact that it is an eminently prac-
teal work. The naturalization OF
everything is not a matter OF theory.
The ideas advocated in that book.
can be seen at Wort; any time. Look
at the army, look at the postottiee."
.Oh that's all right. looking at
things in bulk. Let's come down to
practical details. Detail is the real
test of any scheme. Take this vol
ume, Gazing Upward Now, might
| ask you how much this book has
netted you up to date?"
o, | don't know exactly. Some
where in the neighborhood OF $780,
600"
Very well, then. Now let US look
at the method by which that book
was produced. You walked up and
down this room with your hands be-
hind your back and dictated chap
ter after chapter, and | sat at this
table taking it all down in short
hand. Then you went out and took
the air while | whacked it out on the
typewriter"
Il wish you wouldn'tsay 'Nhacked,
SERVER. That's twice you've used
it."
I "All right, typographical error
For 'whacked' read manipulated.
Then you looked over the type-writ
, ten pages, and | erased and wrote in
and finally got out a perfect copy
Now | worked Just as hard-proba
bly, harder-than you did, vet the sue
cess of that book was entirely due t.
you, and not to ME. Therefore it il
quite right that you should get 500
! 900. and that | should get $15
: week. Come now, isn't it? Speak.
ing as a man of common sense"
!, Speaking exactly in that way
+, say no. it IS not right. II the worlC
were rightly ruled the compensation
l of author and secretary would hav,
been exactly the same
so well, il you go SO far as that,
r replied the secretary, "Ihavenothin
more to say"
l The author laughed and the tw,
! men bent their energies to the CORE
spondence. When the task was fin
ished SERVER said:
"Iwould like to get acoupIe ofday
7 off, Mr.. Ringamy. have some pri
: vate business to attend to-"
: when could you get back?'
e "IIl report to you on Thursda,
;. morning"
: every well then. Not la ter thaI
7 Thursday. think I'll take q coupl
: of days off myself"
. On Thursday morning Mr.. John
son Ringamy sat in his library look
ing out of the window, but the da.
, was not as pleasant as when he las
gazed at the hills, and the woods
Q and the green fields. A wild storm
n dashed the landscape and ratified tn
rain drops against the pane. Nh
Ringamy waited for sometime an.
G then opened the study door an
. looked in. The little room was emp
q ty. He rang the bell and the trim
r. servant girl appeared.
HAS Mr.. SERVER come in YETI"
"No, sir, he haven't"
"Perhaps the rain has kept him.
"Mr. SERVER said that when yo
7 come back, sir, there was a letter o
10 the table as was for YOU"
"Ah, so there is. Thank you, tina
will do"
The author opened the letter an
20 read as follows:
MYDEAR MIR. RIEGAMY.-Your argument
: the other day fully convinced me that yo
were right and ! am wrong (''Ahl / though
Is they would" murmured the nuthor). ] hay
therefore taken n step toward putting yot