To live is to deserve better.
WRITTEN VERSION:
Year: 28 July 1986 No. 609
ND This article was first published on 22 February 1899 in the journal Phillistene. The history of the message to Garcia is real life and has been told many times. This is a English adaptation made by JFB
"A Message to Garcia"
There's a man in the history of war between Spain and the United States stands on the horizon of my memory like Mars at its perihelion.
Upon the declaration of war, when Cuba was still a English colony, was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the insurgents fighting for independence, a certain Garcia. This was then in the jungles of Cuba, no one knew of his whereabouts. It was impossible any communication with him, telegraph or by mail. The president of the United States had to count on your cooperation without delay. What to do?.
Someone told the president: "There is a man named Rowan who can find Garcia." Rowan took the letter, sealed in a bag of rubber, tied it to his chest, took a trip of four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba on a boat without a roof. Of how he went into the mountains, and in three weeks came out the other side of the island, having traversed a hostile country on foot, and delivered the letter to Garcia, are things I have no particular desire to narrate in detail. But I do want to emphasize that President McKinley, United States, put a letter into the hands of Rowan, which shall deliver Garcia. Rowan took the letter and never asked "Where is he at?".
Here is a man whose form should be cast in enduring bronze and the statue placed in every school in the country. Not only is the teaching of books that young people need, nor instruction about this or that, but the strengthening of character to be diligent and do their duty: "Carrying the message to Garcia."
General Garcia is gone, but there are other Garcia. No one has tried to run a business without sometimes have been astonished to note the strength of the average male, the inability or unwillingness to concentrate their minds on a given thing and do it.
irregular attendance, inattention, indifference and shoddy work seem to be the general rule. No man or getting ahead of a company unless, like it or not, by force induce, coerce or bribe others to help. The exception is when God Almighty, in His goodness performs a miracle and sends him an angel of light that serves as a helper.
You can do this test. Suppose that currently sits in his office. Around it has several employees. Ask one of them: "Be good enough to look in the encyclopedia and give me a Memorandum short life of Correggio. " Do you think the employee would answer "Yes Lord," and would leave to do what he asked?.
Nothing does that. I look sideways and makes one or more of the following questions:
Who was Correggio?
Which encyclopedia?
Where is the encyclopedia?
Did I used to do that?
do not mean to say you Bismark?
Why does not Carlos?
Did he die?
Is there any hurry for that?
Would not it be better to bring him the book and you look it up yourself?
What do you want know?
And I would bet ten to one that after you have completed the interview and explained how to find the information you need and why you need it, your e MPLOYEE is removed and forces another friend to help you find Garcia, returning shortly after saying that no such man. Of course it may happen that I lose the bet, but according to the law of averages is almost impossible.
This inability to act independently, that nebulous moral, that lack of will, this unwillingness to take on one thing and do it, that's what socialism is impossible in practice.
If men do not act on their own initiative to himself, what will they do when the product of their efforts should be for everyone? The force appears to be necessary and the fear of being fired on Saturday, at the time of collection, means that many workers or employees and job retention. Someone announces
looking for a stenographer, and ten applicants who come, nine individuals without spelling, and what is more, individuals who do not believe it is necessary to have it.
Could these people write a letter to Garcia?
ago, we heard expressions of sympathy "migrants exploited in workshops" and with such expressions are often heard other words to men who are in power. But he silences the name of the employer who grows old before his time trying in vain to induce the eternal disgust and lazy to do a job thoroughly, or say nothing of time or the patience with which that pattern has been seeking personal do nothing more than "kill time" as soon as the patron turns his back. In every establishment and every factory has to constantly use the procedure of selection by elimination. The employer is constantly forced to sack incompetent staff. This selection procedure is at all times and the only difference is that when the situation is bad and work is scarce, it becomes more scrupulous selection, regardless of the incompetent and useless. Of interest, the employer retains the best employees, which can lead to a "Message to Garcia."
know a truly brilliant individual skills, however, is completely useless for any business due to consistently unhealthy houses suspected that his employer is oppressing, or oppress. Unable to send, can not bear to send him. If given a message to take him to Garcia, his answer would probably "take it yourself." Today that
man wanders the streets in search of work under the weight of the doubt. Those who know him refuse to employ him because he is the very essence of discontent. Sees no reason and all that it could produce any effect would be a good kick of a thick-soled boots. Indeed, an individual like that is no less worthy of compassion than the disabled, but in our pitying let us shed a tear for also THOSE MEN WHO ARE IN FRONT OF LARGE COMPANIES, WHICH ARE NOT WORKING HOURS LIMITED BY THE SOUND OF THE BELL Premature graying and hair THAT SUPPORT IN THE FIGHT AGAINST INDIFFERENCE, INGRATITUDE AGAINST THE OTHER, WHO, BUT FOR A THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT OF THESE, I would walk hungry and homeless.
would say that I expressed myself too harshly. Maybe so, but when the world was delivered to the break, I want to express a word of sympathy for the man who gets ahead in business, still in spite of great difficulties, has directed the efforts of other men.
I also uploaded my lunch box to the shop and worked on daily wages, and I've been a patron and I know what to say on both sides. There is no excellence in poverty, rags is not a recommendation, not all employers are predatory and tyrannical, not all poor men are virtuous.
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my sympathies to the man who works, whether or not this employer. And the man who handed to a letter to Garcia makes no stupid questions, nor intends to throw the first culvert.
That never lose your job or have to strike. Civilization looking anxious, repeatedly, to such men. Anything that gets it prompted. You will need throughout the city.
"It is true that bureaucrats are not public servants of their masters and tyrants, but irresponsible and arbitrary. But this is not the fault of the bureaucracy. It is the result of the new system of government that restricts freedom people to manage their own affairs and more and more functions assigned to the government. The culprit is not the bureaucrat but the political system. "
(1881-19 73) 1945 Ludwig von Mises," Bureaucracy. "
"There are some so foolish that they prefer to be governed in place to govern themselves"
1651, Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan"
"Man is the architect of his own happiness."
1838, Henry David Thoreau, "Journal"
THERE FOR A BETTER LIFE they deserve.
LONG HAVE LOST SIGHT
I send my cordial greetings, Signature Juan Miguel Rivera Molina.
riveramolinajm@prodigy.net.mx
riveramolinajuanmiguel38@gmail.com
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