Stoppages by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 24, 1859

Stoppages

By Editor

STOPPAGES. It is the privilege of every one to stop the Review whenever he or she may please. But we could wish that those who intend to stop without paying, would do so before they have run into debt for it to the amount of several dollars. Those who receive the Review can certainly ascertain whether or not it is to them an interesting and profitable sheet without letting it run on volume after volume and perhaps year after year, before stopping it, and then leaving the Office to stand a considerable loss on their account. We think all will agree with us that when a person has fully made up his mind that he can take no interest in the Review nor the cause it advocates, he ought then to take it no longer unless he intends promptly to pay for it; and if he stops it, he should, if able, honorably cancel whatever indebtedness he may have incurred in the past, or, if not able, frankly state that fact; and it is well understood in such cases, that inability to pay, as long as it continues, so long cancels all our claims for the paper. There is nothing in these terms which any one can reasonably refuse to comply with. We have been led to these remarks by a case which has just occurred. A. Yorty of Brandon, Wis., returns his paper having paid only to volume ten, and owing consequently five dollars.