A Message to Garcia is a widely distributed essay written by
Elbert Hubbard in 1899, expressing the value of individual initiative and conscientiousness in work. The essay’s primary example is a dramatized version of a daring escapade performed by an American soldier, First Lieutenant Andrew S. Rowan, just before the Spanish–American War. The essay describes Rowan carrying a message from President William Mc Kinley to ‘Gen. Calixto García, a leader of the Cuban insurgents somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba—no one knew where’. The essay contrasts Rowan’s self-driven effort against ‘the imbecility of the average man—the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it’.
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Elbert Hubbard in 1899, expressing the value of individual initiative and conscientiousness in work. The essay’s primary example is a dramatized version of a daring escapade performed by an American soldier, First Lieutenant Andrew S. Rowan, just before the Spanish–American War. The essay describes Rowan carrying a message from President William Mc Kinley to ‘Gen. Calixto García, a leader of the Cuban insurgents somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba—no one knew where’. The essay contrasts Rowan’s self-driven effort against ‘the imbecility of the average man—the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it’.
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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