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[00:01.604]How to send a message to Garcia 怎樣把信送給加
[00:09.796]西亞
[00:10.182]When war broke out between Spain and the
[00:13.75]United States it was very necessary to
[00:15.697]communicate quickly with the leader of the
[00:18.224]insurgents.Garcia was somewhere in the
[00:20.796]mountain vastness of Cuba-no one knew where.
[00:22.927]No mail nor telegraph message could reach him.
[00:28.230]The president must secure his cooperation,and
[00:30.559]quickly.
[00:31.858]What to do!
[00:33.298]Some one said to the president,“there ’s a
[00:36.297]fellow by the name of rowan will find Garcia
[00:39.232]for you,if anybody can.”
[00:41.985]Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be
[00:45.438]delivered to Garcia.How “the fellow by the
[00:48.825]name of rowan ”took the letter,sealed it up
[00:51.524]in an oil-skin pouch,strapped it over his
[00:54.350]heart,in four days landed by night off the
[00:56.786]coast of Cuba from an open boat,disappeared
[00:58.432]into the jungle,and in three weeks came out
[01:01.937]on the other side of the island,having
[01:03.407]traversed a hostile country on foot,and
[01:05.899]delivered his letter to Garcia-are things I
[01:07.469]have no special desire now to tell in detail.
[01:10.825]The point that I wish to make is this:
[01:13.402]McKinley gave rowan a letter to be delivered
[01:18.248]to Garcia;rowan took the letter and did not
[01:20.42]ask:“where is he at?”
[01:22.818]There is a man whose form should be cast in
[01:25.343]deathless bronze and the statue placed in
[01:29.591]every college of the land.It is not book-
[01:33.795]learning young men need,nor instruction about
[01:35.173]this and that,but a stiffening of the
[01:38.87]vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to
[01:41.29]a trust,to act promptly,concentrate their
[01:42.698]energies:do the thing-“carry a message to
[01:47.281]Garcia!”
[01:47.670]General Garcia is dead now,but there are
[01:51.310]other Garcias.No man who has endeavored to
[01:54.152]carry out an enterprise where many hands were
[01:58.341]needed,but has been well-nigh appalled at
[02:01.712]times by the imbecility of the average man-the
[02:03.593]inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a
[02:06.308]thing and do it.
[02:08.36]Slipshod assistance,foolish inattention,
[02:08.880]dowdy indifference,and half-hearted work seem
[02:15.665]the rule;and no man succeeds,unless by hook
[02:19.378]or crook or threat he forces or bribes other
[02:22.751]men to assist him;or mayhap,god in his
[02:25.545]goodness performs s miracle,and sends him an
[02:28.222]angel of light for an assistant.
[02:30.781]You put this matter to a test:
[02:33.411]You are sitting now in your office-six clerks
[02:36.325]are all within call.Summon any one and make
[02:40.13]this request:“please look in the
[02:41.778]encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for
[02:44.987]me concerning the life of Correggio.”Will
[02:47.436]the clerk quietly say,“yes,sir,”and go do
[02:49.855]the task?
[02:50.418]On your life,he will not.He will look at you
[02:54.715]out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the
[02:58.711]following questions:
[02:59.112]Who was he?
[03:01.349]Which encyclopedia?Where is the encyclopedia?
[03:04.455]Was I hired for that?What ’s the matter with
[03:07.325]George doing it?Is he dead?Is there any
[03:11.313]hurry?Shan ’t I bring you the book and let
[03:13.806]you look it up yourself?What do you want to
[03:15.950]know for?
[03:16.840]And I will lay you ten to one that after you
[03:20.466]have answered the questions,and explained how
[03:23.68]to find the information,and why you want it,
[03:26.812]the clerk will go off and get one of the other
[03:30.596]clerks to help him try to find Garcia-and
[03:35.131]then come back and tell you there is no such
[03:38.663]man.Of course I may lose the bet,but
[03:40.859]according to the law of average,I will not.
[03:42.542]This incapacity for independent action,this
[03:45.189]moral stupidity,this infirmity of the will,
[03:48.495]this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold
[03:49.672]and lift –these are the things that put pure
[03:54.470]socialism so far into the future.If men will
[03:58.616]not act for themselves,what will they do when
[04:00.868]the benefit of their effort is for all?
[04:04.243]My heart goes out to the man who does his work
[04:08.375]when the “boss ”is away,as well as when he
[04:11.555]is at home.And the man who,when given a
[04:14.804]letter for Garcia,quietly takes the mission,
[04:17.442]without asking any idiotic questions,and with
[04:20.666]no lurking intention of chucking it into the
[04:23.882]nearest sewer,or of doing aught else but
[04:26.450]deliver it,never gets “laid off ”nor has to
[04:31.747]go on a strike for higher wages.
[04:34.493]Anything such a man asks shall be granted.He
[04:38.93]is wanted in every city,town and village and
[04:42.30]in every office,shop,store and factory.The
[04:44.576]world cries out for such:he is needed and
[04:49.412]needed badly-the man who can “carry a
[04:52.178]message to Garcia ”.