The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22
DOING ONES DUTY.
A CASE THAT is WORTHY OF
EXAMPLE. "
Tow Sailor Rowan Delivered a Letter
from the President of the United
States Addressed to the Late General
Garcia Their In the wiIds of Cuba.
Copyrighted, 1899, by Ebert Hub
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In all this Cuban business there is
one mar stands out on the horizon Of
my memory like Mars at perihelion.
When war broke out between Spain
and the United States, it was very nee
assary to communicate quickly with
the leader of the insurgents. Garcia
vas somewhere in the mountain fast
nesses of Cuba-no one knew where.
No mail nor telegraph message could
reach him. The president must Sc
cure his cooperation, and quickly.
What to do!
Some n said to the president,
There's a fellow by the name of
Rowan will find Carols for you, if any
body can"
Rowan was sent for and given a let
ter to be delivered to Garcia. How
the fellow by the name of Rowan"
took the letter, sealed it up in an oil
skin pouch, strapped it over his heart,
in four days landed by night off the
coast Of Cuba from an open boat, dis
appeared 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 let
ter to Garcia, are things 1 have no
special desire now to tell in detail.
The point I wish to make is this:
Mckinley gave Rowan a letter to be
delivered 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 death
less bronze and the statue placed in
every college Of che land. 1t is not
book-learning young men need, nor ia
struction about this and that, but q
stiffening Of the vertebrate which will
cause them to be loyal to trust, to act
promptly, concentrate their energies;
do the thing-eArry a message 20 Gar
cia!'
Gen. Garcia is dead now, but there
are other Garcias.
No man, who has endeavored to car
ry out an enterprise where many
hands were needed, but has been wen
night appalled, at times by the imbe-
cility Of the average mantle inabil-
ity or unwillingness to concentrate on
a thing and do it.
Slipshod assistance, foolish inatJen-
ton, dowdy Indifference, and half
hearted work seem the RUE; and no
man succeeds, unless by hook or crook,
or threat, he forces Or brides other
men to assist him; or maynap God, in
his goodness, performs a miracle, and
sends him an angel of light for an as
sistant. You, reader, put this matter
to a test. You are sitting now in
your ofice-six clerks are within call.
Summon any one and make this re-
quest: please look in the encyclope-
dia and make a brief memorandum
for me concerning the life OF Correg-
gio."
will the clerk quietly say, Yes,
sir" and go do the task?
On your life he will not. He Will
look at you out Of a fshy eye and ask
one or more of the following ques-
tons:
who was he?"
which encyclopedia"
Where is the encyclopedia"
WAS 1 hired for that?"
Don't you mean Bismarck"
Whats the matter with Charlie
doing it,"
"Is he deAd?"
"Is there any hurry?"
"shan't 1 bring you the book and
IL ,Ko., lAAAx ~ -- xMnzaJf9
What do you want to know for"
And l will lay you ten to one that
after you have answered the questions
and explained how to find the informA-
ton, 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 Jaw o.
average, l will not.
Now if you are wise you will MOI
bother to explain to your assistant
that Correggio is indexed under the
C's, not in the KS, but you will smile
sweetly and say, Never mind" ant
go look it up yourself.
And this incapacity for Independent
action, this moral stupidity, this in
trinity of the will, this unwillingnesI
to cheerfully catch hold and lift, ar
the things that put pure Socialism 81
far into the future. If men will no
act for themselves, what Will they d.
when the benefit of their effort is 70
all? A first mate with knotted cluI
seems necessary; and the dread of get
ting "the bounce" Saturday nigh
holds many a worker to his place.
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