Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-30
OUR NEW YORK LETTER,
Jews NJ the liotei.-The Tweed suit
Political.
JEWS AT THE HOTELS

Political.
, JEWS AT THE HOTELS,
+ The great sensation in New York
, Just now, Is the action of Judge Hilton
! the representative OF the Stewart estate
, in excluding Jews from the Grand I'm,
ion Hotel ut Saratoga. The Grund I'm,
ion Is the largest summer hotel In the
world, and the most exclusive, Joseph
Seligman, one of the wealthicst bankers
of this city. has, for some years lived at
! Il e Grand Union, with his family, dur
ing the summer months, and he applied
last week for suitable apartments for
this season. Much to Mr., Seligman's
disgust, the clerk informed him that he
could not have rooms, and when asked
for reason said that Judge Hilton had
instructed him to refuse all Jews! To
say that there was u storm would be to
put il very mildly, BE it known that
the Jews are enormously wealthy in New
York, and are, moreover, numerous,
They are the largest bankers and among
the largest merchants. and they control
the theatrical and operate business
There was n buzzing among them, and
II newspaper war of vast dimcntions was
the result. Judge Hilton gave us his
reason for his action that any hotel was
ruined the moment it became known us
Il jew house, for the reason that the Jews
are all loud. coarse, obtrusivc and filthy.
lie said they would get rooms at the
lowest possible rates, and smuggle into
them all their VISITORS that they were
filthy in their habits, and that they swarm
in such numbers rs to monopolize the
| ,,ia hat in Ia a,
hotel they had privileges rs guests which
gave them license to be disagreoablc to
other people; that their women We're
cross, vulg arand ovcr-dressed in short,
he wouldn't have them about at any
price. On the other hand, the Jews in
sist that they are rs quiet and gentle
manly as any other class, that they pay
their bills and have right to all accom-
modations that other people have. And
the Jews of the United States are with
drawing their trade from Stewards, and
there is Il war rivalng in bitterness tho
one raging in Europe. 1t is true that
there are class of Jews of the kind
Judge Hilton describes. Many Il bank
er now worth his millions and living in
gorgeous style, came into the city with
his pack on his back, and made his COM
mencement in the alleys and by-ways.
Manners don't come with money, and it
is not to be expected that such man
should possess all the graces of good So
ciety. His daughters, dress they ever
so well, will be vulgar, and his sons,
no matter how large the diamonds they
were, will be nothing but snobs. Such
are doubtless disagreeable at hotels, and
are not to be desired, and it is true that
the Jews have more than their share of
them. But it is true, on the other hand,
that there are thousands of Jews who
have both wealth and manners, and who
are as well grounded in all that makes
the gentlemen or lady as anybody. Hill
ton made mistake in rejecting the Jews
us II race-he should have rejected the
bad Jews. The people will not brook
Il line so drawn. Class distinctions are
out of place in this country, and forty
Judge Hiltons with forty times the Stew
art estate back of them, cannot make
them, 1t will kill tie trade OF the Stew
art establishment, and will hurt the
Grand Union Hotel. For whether one
likes Jews or not, fair play is the jewel.
The papers are full of the subject,
THE TWEED SUIT,
Townsend, Tweed's attorney, publish
es tremendous arraignment of Fair
child, the Attorney General. Townsend
claims that Farchild deceived Tweed,
by promising to let him so if he would
make a clean breast of it; that Tweed I
did so promise and stood ready to give {
information that would have saved the
State two millions, and would have {
brought the whole gang to justice; but {
that Fairohild, in the interest of John
Kelly and to smirch the reputation of
certain men, used such portions of what
Tweed contided TO him as would serve
his purpose, and then refused to let him
go on the score that his testimony is
worth nothing. The true inwardness of il,
It all is that Tweed is about as honest as =
I thousand more who are in both par n
les, There is very widespread dread :
Of seeing him on the stand, which Is
probably the reason why he is kept in h
luress, There are Republicans who h
,ook Tweed's money, In fact his gigan- $
ic frauds could not have been carried |;
,ut without help from the Republican
party, and they are shaking in their
shoes. There are plenty of Democrats
whom the public esteem who are spot j,
ed with it, and there is a widespread =
measiness that Tweed, when he does q
ret on the stand, will prove bull in i
,hina shop and kick over a great many
very pretty kettles of fish. No one d
Knows whom the old man will strike 4
when he gets within striking distance, d
md there are hundreds who do not want '
lin to have "A chance to hit. As it stands, =
he prosecution has been an absurd farce. fl
20 one has been punished but Tweed. L
md he is no worse than the rest of them. 5,
sweeney gets off by paying back about /
/ twentieth of what he stole, and lnger- !
oil was out within few weeks of the d
imc he went in, and the rest of the gang
AVE never been hurt particle. The a
prosecutions have cost the city four times G.
S much as was ever realized from the a
hieves by restitution, and so absurd has u
become that the moral effect of Tweed's
is gone. For, owing to !,
'airchilds treatment of the case and d
he skilitul manipulation of his attor- d.
eys, Tweed is now looked upon as a W
martyr, and is more pitied than blamed. Ct Ct
t is a sad ending. New York is in as y
ad hands to-day as it was when Tweed
eigned, and is entering upon another
nrm of fraud and corruption. The "
wenty millions that the big Ring stole, :,
My served to whet the appetite of those " "
1ho got a bite of it for a full meal. IL
POLITICAL. I
The city is stirred up on the silver u
uestion. New York is inflexibly OPP 81
osed to the remoneizing of silver, and Il
he business world stigmatizes the max G;
lg silver legal tender as only another NJ
,rm of imitation. Debts due other coun- :"
les can no more be paid in silver than a :,
hey can in greenbacks, and the produc- D
on is so enormous that still further L
ecline is considered certain. The city I'll
ill fight it to the death, and gold is the al
My standard that is acceptable; every ii
lember from the city will be instructed n
, favor no financial scheme that looks =,
} making anything but gold the stand =. =.
I'd of values. The cleansing of the vi
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