The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-25

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is FOR all7 A first mate with knotted
club seems necessary, and the dread
of getting 1.-The bounce" Saturday
night, hold many a worker TO his place.
Advertise for a stenographer, and nine
out Of ten who apply, a neither spell
nor punctuate-and do not think it
necessary to-.
Can such a one write a letter to Gar
cia9
You q that book-keeper," said
the 'reman to me- in a large factory.
YES, what about him8"
well, he's a fine accountant but if
I'd send him up town on an errand,
he might accomplish the errand all
right, and On the other hand, might
stop at four saloons on the way, and
when he got to Main Street, would
forget what he had been sent for"
Can such a man be entrusted to car
ry a message to Garcia?
We have recently been hearing much
maudlin sympathy express I'd for the
down trodden denjzen OF the sweat
shop" and the homeless wanderer
searching for honest employ ment, s"
and with it all often goes 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 meier 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 fac
tory there is a constant wedding out
process going on. The employer is
constantly 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,
only if times are hard and work is
scarce, the sorting is done fner-but
out and forever out, the incompetent
and IN worthy 60. IL is the survival
of the fittest. Self interest prompts
eveaV employer to keep the best-those
who can carry a message to Garcia.
know n man of really brilliant
parts who has not the ability to man
age a business OF his own, ard yet
vino il absolutely worthless TO any one
else, because be carries with him con
SANITY the insane suspicion that his
employer is depressing, or intending
Cd Cypress him. He cannot give orders
aud he will not receive them. Should
a message be given him to take to Gar
cha, his answer would probably be,
Take it yourself"
Tonight this man walks the streets
looking for work, the wind WblstlEng
through his thread bare cDas. No one
who knows him dare employ him, for
ne is a regular fire brand Of discomfort
He is imparvious to reason, and the
only thing that can impress him is the
toe OF a thick soled M. 9 boot.
OF course l know that n go NOR
ally deformed is no less to be pitied
tnan a ply sical cripple, but in our
plying, let US drop a tear, too, for the
men who are striving to carry on a
great enterprise, whose working hours
are not limited by the whistle, and
whose hair is fast turning white
through the struggle to hold In line
indifference, slip shod imbecil
ity and the heartless ingratitude which
but for their enterprise, would be both
hungry and hopeless.
Have 1 put the matter too stroDgly9
Possibly I have; but when all che
has gone a Summing l wish to
speak a word for the man who sue
ceeds-the man who, against great
odds, has directed the efforts of others.
and having succeeded, fads nothing
ing in II; nothing but bare board and
l have carried a dinner pail and
worked for days wages, and l have
also been an employer OF labor, aud l
know there is something to be aid on
both sides. There is no excellence, !
per SO, in poverty rags are no recon
nendatiop; and all employers are not
.-apacious and high handed, any more
man all poor men are virtuous.
My heart does out to the man who
ices his WORE when the boss Is away
- we'll as when ne is at home. And
The man who, when, given a letter for
quietly takes the missive with
tut asking any idiotic questions, and
With no lurking intentions Of chueklng