New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1899-05-06
1.-The Man Who Can Carry a Letter TO
Garcia"

Paste this in your boys hat aud on the
walls of your school houses
Elhert Hubbard, editor of that brisfling
little magazinelet called The PhliSiiue,
wrote for the March number M essay
which had the effect Of not only selling
the edition within three davs after its
appearance, but of inspiring Mr. George
Daniels, general passenger agent of the
New York Central, to order new edition
of half a million copies for free distrihu-
ton. Mr.. Hubbard took as his text "a
fellow by the namo of Rowan who, at
the outbreak Of the late war. undertook to
deliver Il message from President Mckin
| ley to Gen. Garcia, who was somewhere
in the mountain Businesses of tuba-no
one knew where And Mr. Hubbard
thus philosophers
| 1.-The point ! wish TO make is this Me
| kinley gave Rowan letter to he deliv-
cred to Garcia; Rowan took the letter
| and did not ask, where is he at ? BY the
Eternal there is man whose form
should be east in deathless bronze and
the statue placed in every college of the
land. II is not book learning young men
need nor instruction about this and that.
but a stiffening Of the vertebrae which
will cause them to be loyal to trust, to
act promptly, concentrate their energies
do the thing Garry message to Gar
cia 7
Gen, Garcia is dead now, but there are
other Garcias.
No man, who has endeavored to carry
out an enterprise where many hands were
needed, but has been well nigh appalled,
at times by the imbecilty of the average
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concentrate on a thing aud do it.
Slip-shod assistance foolish inattention,
dowdy indiffe, ence, and half hearted work
seem the rule; and no man succeeds,
unless by hook or crook, or threat, he for
ces or bribes other men TO assist him or
mayhap God in His goodness performs
miracle, and sends him an angel of light
for an assistant You, readers put this
matter to u test You are sitting now in
your ofiice-six clerks are within call
Summon any one and make tilis request
Please look in the encyclopedia and make
q brief memorandum for ma concerning
the life of Correggio.
Will the clerk quietly ssy, yes, sir,
and go do the task
On your life ho will not. Gle will look
at you out of II ishy eye and ask one or
IloEt VI tHt ltlbNliE
Who was he7
Which encyclopedia
Where is the encyclopedia
Was hired for that 7
Don't you mean Bismarck
What the matter with Charlie doing |
it 2
Is he deadP
Is there any hurryY
hu,,, h. "A 1nt,
look it up yorselfa
What do you want to know for2 |
And | will lay you ten to one that after
you have answered the questions, and ex-
planned how to ind 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 u man. OF |
course I may lose my bet, but according |
to the law of average, | will not.
Now if you are wise you will not bother
to explain to your assistent that Correggio |
is indexed under the C's, not the KS, but |
yUi VIII smile sweetly and say Never
mifid' and 60 look it up yourself.
And this incapacity for independent
action, this moral stupidity this inirmity
of the will, this unwillingness to cheer
fully catch hold and lift, are the things
that put pure Socialism so far into the fu
ture. If men will not act for themselves,
what will they do when the benefit of
their efforts is for all 7
My heart goes out to the man who does
his work when the boss is away as well
as when he is ut home. And the man
who, when given letter for Garcia, quiet
|y takes the missive, without asking any
idiotic questions, and with no lurking in
tention of chucking it into the nearest
sewer, or of doing aught else but deliver
II, never gets laid off, nor has to go on
strike for higher wages. Civilization is
,ne long anxious search for just such in
lviduals. Anything such a man asks
shall be granted his kind is so rare that
no employer can afford to let him go. He
8 wanted in every city, town and village
n every Office, shop, store and factory.
The world cries out for such he is need
I'd, and needed badly-the man who can
carry message to Garcia. - Literary Di-
lest.