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Copyright 1914 by Elbert Hubbard
APOLOGIA
HORSE SENSE
If you work for a man, in Heaven's name work for him. If he pays wages thatsupply you your bread and butter, work for him, speak well of him, think well ofhim, and stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. I think if Iworked for a man, I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of histime, but all of his time. I would give an undivided service or none. If put tothe pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you mustvilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and whenyou are outside, damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long as youare a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure theinstitution—not that—but when you disparage the concern of which you are apart, you disparage yourself. And don't forget—“I forgot” won't do in business.
 his literary trifle, “A Message to Garcia,” was written one evening after supper, in a single hour. It was on the Twenty-second of February, Eighteen Hundred Ninety-nine, Washington's Birthday, and we were just going to press with the March “Philistine.” The thing leaped hot from my heart, written after a trying day, when I had been endeavoring to train some rather delinquent villagers to abjure the comatose state and get radio-active. | A trying day |
| The immediate suggestion, though, came from a little argument over the teacups, when my boy Bert suggested that Rowan was the real hero of the Cuban War. Rowan had gone alone and done the thing—carried the message to Garcia. | The real hero of the war |
| It came to me like a flash! Yes, the boy is right, the hero is the man who does his work—who carries the message to Garcia. I got up from the table, and wrote “A Message to Garcia.” I thought so little of it that we ran it in the Magazine without a heading. The edition went out, and soon orders began to come for extra copies of the March “Philistine,” a dozen, fifty, a hundred; and when the American News Company ordered a thousand, I asked one of my helpers which article it was that had stirred up the cosmic dust. | The increasing demand |
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