TO THE PUBLISHING COMMITTEE.
By James White
DEAR BRETHREN: We see in the late numbers of the REVIEW only about seventy or eighty dollars received each week, only a little more than the weekly expenditures. And, this too, after the appeal in the last "Good Samaritan," and after sending out bills to the amount of near nineteen hundred dollars due on the REVIEW. We did expect that one thousand dollars would be sent in immediately. We have a free list of 400, and a half price list of about the same number; and besides this tax upon the office there is due about eighteen hundred dollars. We have used our influence to induce hands in the office to work on for reduced wages with the hope that our increased list of paying subscribers would enable the office to pay full wages. But a large list of delinquent subscribers will sink any office rapidly in debt, and we wish to state frankly that we see no better prospect for the poor printers while acting upon our present plan. We therefore cannot, in justice to our own conscience, and to those who have been associated with us in the publishing department, any longer plead for reduced wages. This has been done with the vain hope that an increased list of paying subscribers would very soon enable the office to raise the wages, and make up in part for the past reduction. But we see no improvement, and hope no longer for improvement on our present plan. We therefore recommend the strict advance pay system. Take no subscriptions for less than one year, and if it be not renewed at the end of the year, discontinue the paper until it is renewed. This plan will not prevent sending the REVIEW free to some, or at half price to the poor, or those who take it a year to investigate. And those who will not report themselves once a year, or seek to be reported to the office once a year we cannot expect to benefit. This plan will save appeals and bills to delinquents, and enable the office to pay full wages, and honest debts.