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A message to Garcia
David Speer David Speer

A message to Garcia

Elbert Hubbard on General Garcia: "There is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land". Elbert Hubbard describes how General Garcia's letter-deliveree, Rowan, sealed it up in an oil-skin pouch, strapped it over his heart, and trekked across Cuba. Average Man - the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. This incapacity for independent action, this moral stupidity, this infirmity of the will are the things that put pure socialism so far into the future. I may lose my bet, but according to the Law of Average, I will not.

In every factory and store and shop there is a constant weeding-out process going on. Advertise for stenographer, and nine times out of ten who apply can neither spell nor punctuate. Can such a man be entrusted to carry a message to Garcia? "Survival of the fittest" is the sorting out the incompetent and unworthy. I know one man of brilliant parts who has not the ability to manage a business.

No one who knows him dare employ him, for he is a regular firebrand of discontent. "My heart goes out to the man who does his work when the "boss" is away," he writes. The world cries out for such a man. He is wanted in every city, town, and village - in every office, shop, store and factory.

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