The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22

I'd send him up town on an errand, he
might accomplish the errand all right,
but 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 intrusIed to carry
a message to Garcia?
We have recently been hearing much
maudlin sympathy expressed for the
"down-trodden denizen of the sweat
shops and the homeless wanderer
searching for honest employment"
and with it all often go 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 ne'er-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 factory
there is a constant w~eeding-ouI pro-
cess going on. The employer is con-
stantly sending away help" that have
shown their incapacity to further the
u tAS oAS1bOoo, A0 OOASA0
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 iner-but
out and forever out, the incompetent
and unworthy 90. 1t Is the survival
of the nttest. Self-interes, prompts
every employer to keep the best
those who can carry a message to Gar
cha.
| know one man of really brilliant
parts who has not the ability to man
age a business of his own, and yet who
is absolutely worthless to any n
else, because he carries with him con-
stantly the insane suspicion that his
employer 10 expressing or intending to
Cypress him. He cannot give orders;
and he will not receive them. Should
a message be given him to take to Gar
cha, his answer would probably be,
Take 1t yourself, and be damned!'
Tonight this man walks the streets
looking for work, the wind whist1ing
through his ~threadbarO coat. No one
who knOws kiA dare employ him, for
he is a regular ire-brznd OF discon-
tent. He 10 iMpervteus to reason, and
the only thing that car impress him
is the toe Of q thick-solod No. . boot.
OF course / know that one so moral
ly deforned IL no less to be pitied
than n physical cripple; but in oWT
plying, let us drop q 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 lime
dowdy indifference, slipshod imbecfl-
ity and the heartless ingratitude,
which, but for their enterprise, would
be both hungry and homeless.
Have l put the matter too strongly?
Possibly l have; but when all the
world has gone a~-slumming l wish to
speak a word of sympathy for the
man who succeeds-the man who,
against great odds, has directed the
efforts of others, and having succeeded.
finds there's nothing in it; nothing but
bare board and clothes.
l have carried a dinner pail and
worked for days wages, and I have
also been an employer of labor, mi
know there is something to be said on
both sides. There is no excellence.
per Sc, in poverty; rag are no recon-
mendation; and all employers are not
rapacious and high-handed, any more
than all poor men are %virtuous.
My heart goes out to the man whs
does his work when the boss" n
away, as well as when he 10 at home
And the man, who, whom given a let-
ter for Garcia, quietly takes the mis-
sive, without asking any idiotic ques.
tions, and with no lurking Intention q
ehucking it into the nearest sewer, 81
Of doing aught else but deliver IL
never gets laid off," nor has to go On
a strike for higher wages. CfviliHa'
tioH is one long anxious search f01
just such individuals. Anything such
a ma asks shall be granted; his kfnt
is SO rare that no employer a Of
ford to let him go. He is wanted n
every city, town and village-in every
Office, shop, store and factory. Th'
world cries out for such; he is needed
and needed badly-the mar VINO cal
carry a message to Garci&.-The Phil
latina