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Ietter. M to Garcia, are things I have no

letter to Garcia, are things I. have no
special desire NOW to toll in detail.
The point I wish to make in this :
Mckinley gave Rowan g letter to be
delivered to. Garcia; Rowan took the
letter and did not ask, HWhere is be
fatW By the Eternal there is man
whose form should be casttin deathless
bronze, and the statue placed in every
college Of the land. It is not book
learning young men need, nor instruc-
ton about this and that, but stiffen-
ing of the vertebrae which will cause
them to be loyal to trust, to act
promptly, concentrate their energies
do the thing-'carry 9 message to
Garcia !p,J,I 5 ~, .G3
llfaeneral Garcia is dead now, but
there are other. Garcias.
No man who has endeavored to
carry out an enterprise where many
hands were needed, bnt has been we'll
nigh. appalled, at times by the imbecili-
ty of the average mantle inability
or unwilliDgness to- con centrate on q
thing and do it. Slipshod assistance,
foolish inattention, Idowdy indiffer-
ance, and, halfhearted work seem the
rule; and no man succeeda, unless by
hook or crook, or threat, he forces or
bribes other men to assist him, or
mayhap, God in His goodness per-
forms miracle, and sends him an
Angel of Light for an assistant. You,
reader, put this matter to test {: You
are sitting now in your off1ce-six
clerks are within call. Summon any
one and make this request: please
look in the encyclopedia and make q
brief memorandum for me concering
the life of Corregio." y!
Will the clerk quietly say, tHtYes,
SIR" and 60 to the task? iff,,
On your life, he will not. He will
look at you out of a fishy eye, and ask
one or more Of the following .ques-
tions: -
Who was he?
Which encyclopedia? ..
Where ia the encyclopedia
Was I hired for that?
Don't you mean Bismark ?
What's the matter with Charlie do
ing it?
Is he dead {? 80.
Ia there any hurry?
Shan't / bring you the book and let
you look 1t up yourself? ....
What do you want to know for?
And I will bet you 10 to l that after
you have answered the questions and
explained how to find the in formation,
and why you wantit, the clerk will 60
off and get one Of the other clerks to
help him frvsto find Garcia--and then
come BacE and tell you there ;is no
| such man Of course, i may lose my
bet, bdt saccprding to the law ct aver a. q
ages iils6ot.i
Now ffgou are wise, you VIII mot
bother tS sxp plain to your ASSISTANT
THAT Gorfeggio is indexed under the
EC's, not In the KS, but you will
sweetly and say, "Never' mind,,pe and
go look it up yourself. lts.'i 2
And his incapacity for independent
action, this moral stupidity, this in
trinity of ehe will this unwilllngness
to cheerfully catch, hold and lift, are
the things that put pure Socialism 80
far in the future. If'men will not act
for themselves, what will they DO
when the benefit of their effort is for
all? A first mate with knotted club
seems necessary: and the dread OF
getting "the bounce" Saturday, night
holds many worker to lis place.
Advertise for a stenoSrapher, and
nine out of ten who apply can neither
spell not punctuate-and 10 not think
it necessary to.
Can such one write letter to Gar
cia?
"You see that bookke per ?" said the
foreman to me In large factory.
! 4"Yss, what absut htn"