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A MESSAGE TO GARCIA

ELBERT HUBBARD

In all this Cuban business there is one man who 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 necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the insurgents. Garcia was 5 somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba, no one knew where. No mail or telegraph message could reach him. The president must secure his coöperation, and quickly.

What to do!

Someone said to the president, "There's a fellow by the name of Rowan will find Garcia for you, if anybody can."

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Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. How "the fellow by the name of Rowan" took the letter, sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped 15 it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared 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 letter to Garcia, are things I have no 20 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 a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor 5 instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebræ which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing,carry a message to Garcia!"

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General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. ΙΟ No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed but has been well-nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man,the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy 15 indifference, and half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds unless, by hook or crook, or threat, he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or mayhap, God in his goodness performs a miracle and sends him an angel of light for an assistant. You, reader, put this matter to 20 a test: You are sitting now in your office; six clerks are within call. Summon any one and make this request: "Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Correggio."

Will the clerk quietly say, "Yes, sir," and go do the 25 task ?

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On your life, he will not. He will look at you out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the following questions: Who was he?

Which encyclopedia ?

Where is the encyclopedia ?

Was I hired for that?

Don't you mean Bismarck?

What's the matter with Charlie doing it?

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