The Spiritualist newspaper > No.107, September 11th 1874

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NATIONAL ORGANISATION OF SPIRITUALISTS.
Since the meeting at Liverpool, at which all the
chief towns and local societies of Spiritualists in the
United Kingdom were officially or unofficially repre¬
sented, and it was unanimously resolved to form a
friendly National Association of Spiritualists, whose
officers should be elected by vote by ballot, the work of
national organisation has gone on steadily and success¬
fully. But in trying to get the small local societies to
declare that they will work in friendly harmony with
the National Association, it has been found that some
of the more uninformed members have been prejudiced
against the step, in consequence of Mr. Burns, a
spiritual bookseller in London, having printed and cir¬
culated some unfounded statements tha,t the Associa¬
tion intends to oppose him. In the first place the
people already connected with the movement are too
honourable to entertain the idea for a moment of
opposing an honest tradesman ; in the second place the
Association includes persons who have presented Mr.
Burns with hundreds upon hundreds of pounds as free
gifts within the past few years; in the third place two
of the members of the National Association—Mr.
Martheze and Mr. Joseph Mylne—are now between
them presenting Mr. Burns, as a free gift, with nearly
enough money regularly and annually to enable him to
live rent free; and in the fourth place, if malicious
people wished to injure a bookseller in his business,
they could do it without going to the absurdly gigantic
step of forming a National Association. Two or three
spiteful persons could do it simply by starting another
bookseller in the same street, and giving him money
enough to enable him to sell his goods under cost price,
supposing they could find a man capable of accepting
the position of a vendor of commodities under cost
price to the injury of his neighbours.
The reason why the doings of this honest man are,
for the moment, of sufficient importance to require
notice in a newspaper is, that he some time since
started a newspaper, or trade circular, of his own,
and by running heavily into debt with tradesmen and
others—which fact he has published himself—and by
publicly asking people to give him money, he has for
years been enabled to sell his journal, The Medium,
under cost price ; the capital of the public was used
in this way, perhaps with good motives, to undersell
his neighbours, and to gain the attention of the poorer
Spiritualists, who were obliged to buy the cheapest
journal. We know one person who was enormously
injured by the said underselling, and paid out heaps
of money in silence for some years, rather than say
one single word publicly which might be mistaken as a
key-note of dissension in Spiritualism. After he had
been enormously fined in silence, before saying a word,
he spoke out, and some Spiritualists of high principle
repaired a portion of the unintentional injury they