The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-12-25
Judge Hilton and the Jews.

New York Special to- Chicago Tribuue.1
Mrs. Stewards gifts to the Jewish insti-
tutlons form the topic of sensational interest
to-day. In reference to the donations, Judge
Hllton's private secretary said to a Times re-
porter that there was no occasion for a pub
lcatlon about the matter. Neither Mrs.
Stewart nor Judge Hilton care to talk about
thelr charities. ''The whole matter,'' said
ne, us this: 1t has been the custom of Mrs.
Stewart and Judge Hilton, every year about
| this time, to select list of charitable insti.
| tutlons and send them donations. These
donations have always been voluntary and
made in the quietest manner possible. These
yearly gifts have been independent of their
other charities This winter Mrs. Stewart
made out list of institutions, numbering
fifty, and requested Judge Hilton to send
each the specified amount To Mrs. Stewards
| list Judge Hilton added thirty on his own &C
| count, making eighty altogether. These in
GUIDED almost all denominations. Mount
Sinai hospital, the Hebrew Orphan asylum.
and the Hebrew Home for the Aged and In
trm were selected this year, not because they
were managed by Jews, but because they are
deserving institutions. Notices were sent to-
al the institutions in about The same form.
Inc Hebrews take offense because their char
tiles were offered the donations. They pick
flaws in the form of the offer, and make
ghosts out of the terms. They construe
wellmeant gifts into insult, and act as if 1t
were crime for a Christian to send charity
to Jew at Christmas time. Isn't it wrong?
The other denominations found no fault.
The list was made out with SO little of Sec
tartan feeling that the donation was sent to
Mohammedan charitable institution be-
cause it is deserving. If the Hebrews don't
want the money, of course they can't be
compelled to take it. But the refusal might
nave been as quietly made as the offer. I
decline to furnish you with the names of the
institutions on the list, or with the total
amount donated. If absolutely necessary to
know, you must learn elsewhere Mrs.
Joseph Stiner, vice president of the Hebrew
Home for the Aged and Infirm, believed
Mrs. Stewart was sincerely charitable
IN making the donations. The trouble was,
she said, with Judge Hilton. He took ad-
vantage of his position to cast an insult at
the Hebrews. This he did by so wording
the notices as to make it necessary for the
treasurer OF each institution to personally
call upon him to get the money. Of course,
the treasurers were all Hebrews, and Judge
Hilton would be highly gratlfed to have
these gentlemen go to him and receive
favors for their race at his hands. "Our
people, said Mrs. Stiner, ''will not be un-
der any obligations to him. We will not
take gifts from him. We will rather con-
tribute the amounts among ourselves Mrs,
Stlner thought that, if the dohations were
bids for Jewish trade, they were very poor,
shabby and impolitic ones. The race could
not be bought so cheaply. To inquiries put
to the officers of the societies the general re.
spouse was that the action of Mrs Stewart.
taken through Judge Hilton. could not be
regarded otherwise than as lacking in con-
s1deration. The use of Judge Hilton as the
agent could not be regarded as delicate or
If the checks had been sent &C
cordlng to the usual custom, they would have
been applied and acknowledged.