Editor’s Table: Free Eras for Missionaries

the mails as second class matter, or pound rates, the statement was made that the circulation was 2,000 at that time, Nov. ist. A few weeks later the postmaster requested the assistant business manager to call upon him in relation to a letter he had received from the third assistant postmaster general at Washington. Upon calling on the postmaster he was informed that the third assistant desired to have the statement in regard to the subscription list of the Era verified. The postmaster at Salt Lake stated that they could not understand at Washington, how a magazine could start out in this country with a subscription list of 2,000, as usually magazines commenced with a circulation of a few hundred only.

Had it been known by the post office officials in Washington that the Era had started without one dollar of capital; that not one dollar of indebtedness had been incurred in launching this enterprise, their astonishment would no doubt have been increased considerably. But however great their astonishment may be such are the facts in the case.

We refer to these matters not for the purpose of gratifying any feelings of vanity — though we do not hesitate to say that the publishers have a reasonable pride in the success with which the Era is meeting, and that pride will, we have no doubt, be shared by the young men of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose response to the call to bring into existence an organ of the improvement associations has been at once so prompt and liberal; and made possible this success. We do not refer to this success, we repeat, to gratify any feelings of vanity, but we refer to it in order to call the attention of our young brethren to what they can accomplish — the power within their hands — when they unite for the accomplishment of any purpose; and we want the success that is attending our united efforts in this present enterprise to be both an inspiration and an assurance of success for future undertakings.

FREE ERAS FOR MISSIONARIES.

When the publishers of the Era concluded to make a one dollar subscription rate to missionaries, as soon as it be-