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The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Message to Garcia, by Elbert Hubbard This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Message to Garcia Being a Preachment Author: Elbert Hubbard Release Date: December 2, 2005 [eBook #17195] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MESSAGE TO GARCIA*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, S. R. Ellison, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) A MESSAGE TO GARCIA Being a Preachment by Elbert Hubbard. [Illustration: Elbert Hubbard] [Illustration] Done into a Printed Book by the Roycrofters at Their Shop, Which Is in East Aurora, Erie County, N.Y. 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 that supply you your bread and butter, work for him, speak well of him, think well of him, and stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man, I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of his time, but all of his time. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution--not that--but when you disparage the concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself. And don't forget--"I forgot" won't do in business. [Sidenote: _A trying day_] This 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. [Sidenote: The real hero of the war] The immediate sugg
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