Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1900-01-31

sWeotiy ana say, Never mind, and
go lookiI up yourself.
And his incapacity for independent
action, this moral stupidity. this an
Willingness to- chserfully catch hold
and lift, 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
ehort is for ala A first mate with
knottsd club aeems necessary; and the
dread OF getting "ths bounce" Satur-
day night holds many worker to his
place.
Advertise for stenographsr, aud
nine cut OF ten who apply can neither
spell nor punctuate-and do not think
it necessary.
Can such one write letter to
Garcia!
"You see that bookkeeper?" said the
foreman to me in large factory, -e 1
Yes; what about himi"
"Woll, he's fine accountant; but it
I'd send him uptown on an errand he
might accomplish the errand all right,
and, on the other hand, might stop at
four saloons on the on the, and when
he got to Main street would forget what
no had been sent for"
Can such man be entrusted to
carry message to Garcia?"
We have recently been hearing much
maudlin sympathy expressed for the
i'down-trodden citizen Of the sweat
shop, and the "hsmsless wandsrsr
searching for honest employment, "and
with it all often go many hard words
for the men in power.
Nothing is said Of the employer who
grows old before his time in a vain at .
tempt to get frowsy ns'cr-do-wells to
dc intelligent work, and his lens patient |
striving with "help" that does nothing
but loaf when his back is turned. In I
avery store and factory there Jig con-
INT weddingout process going on.
The employer is constantly sending
way "help" that have shown their
to further the interests OF
he business, and others are being
AIKEN on. No matter how good times
re, this sorting continues; only if
ines are hard and work is scarce, the
orting is done fner-but out and for
yer out, the,incompstent and unworthy
o. 1t is the survival Of the fttest
promps every employer
0 kSep the best those who can carry
message to Garcia.
l know one man Of really brilliant
arts who has not the ability to man
ge business OF his owA, and yet who |
absolutely worthless to anyone else, /
Ocause he carries With him constantly r
lie insane suspicion that his employer
expressing or intending to Cypress b
m. He cannot give orders and he Il
i'll not receive them. Should mes e
ge be given him to take to Grrcia his s
lswer would probably be, takei it your il
IT," !
Tonight this man walks the streets n
Oking for work, the wind whistling
rough his threadpare coat. No one g
ho knows him dare employ him, for b
is a fire. brand of discomfort. He \
impervious to reason, and the only n
ing that can impress him is the toe n
a thickSole No. 8 boot. Of courGe 1
ow that one SO morally defermod is
less to BIO piIied than a physical
pple; but in our plying, let us drop
tear, too, for tho men who are starry
3 to carry on agreat enterprise, whose
'rking hours are not limited by tie
lIstle, and whose hair is fast turning
lite through tho struggle to hold in
g dcw1y indifference, sipshod i'm
oility, and the heartless ingratltude,
lich, but fer their enterprise, would
both hungry and homeless. u
Have l put the matter too stronglyi =,
Ssiblo I have; but when Qll the world NJ
) gone a'slumming wish to speak -
Vord Of sympathy for the man who IL
'cesds-ths man who, against great ", '"
is, has directed the efforts Of others, az
having succeeded, finds there's -"
hing it; nothing but bare board and
thes. I have carried dinner pail Az
worked for days wages,and have v"
bean an employer OF labor, and I
w there is something to be said on VI
h sides. There is no excellence, ~ :.
Sc, in poverty; rags are no rec %
all employers are not A'
oc;ouo aud h;oh- bendad mr. mor