River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-26
Judge Hilton and the Jews.

| New York Special to Chicago Tribune.
| Mrs. Stewards gifts to the Jewish insti-
| buttons form the topic of sensational interest
to-day. In reference to the donations, Judge
Hilton's private secretary said to Times re-
porter that there was no occasion for pub
LEGATION about the matter. Neither Mrs.
Stewart nor Judge Hilton care to talk about
their charities. ''The whole matter" said
he, sis this: 1t has been the custom of Mrs.
! Stewart and Judge Hilton, every year about
this time, to select list of charitable insti-
buttons 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
cluded almost all denominations. Mount
Sinai hospital, the Hebrew Orphan asylum,
and the Hebrew Home for the Aged and IN
| firm were selected this year, not because they
were managed by Jews, but because they are
deserving institutions. Notices were sent to
all the institutions i'll about The same FORM
The Hebrews take offense because their char
tiles were offered the donations. They pick
ghosts out of the terms. They construe
well-meant gifts into insult, and act as if 1t
were crime for 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
a 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
have been as quietly made as the offer. |
decline to furnish you with the names of tie
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 IBfirm, 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 gratlfied to have
these gentlemen 90 to him and receive
favors for their race at his hands. "Our
people, said Mrs. rStiner "will not be I'M
der any obligations to him. We will not
take gifts from him. We will rather con-
tribute the amounts among ourselves" Mrs.
Stiner thoGght that, if the donations 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-
sideration. The use of Judge Hilton as the
agent could not be regarded as delicate or
consistent. If the checks had been sent ac-
cording to the usual custom, they would have
been applied and acknowledged.