The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-07

SAs A<0O4o doe hCD1oWS hApUI
5onneschein, who understands how
powerful a weapon is sarcasm, and
how forcible is truth. He alec poss-
esses degree OF race pride tina. does
him credit. The other day be. deliv-
cred an address in reply to the dis
graceful notice put out by Saratoga
and Coney Island hotel-kespers:" No
Jews admitted here" Il Is q rehec-
tioa upon the American people that
such notices can be publicly given,
and those who issue them be sus-
tanned. The custom is to blame the
hotel people, whereas they are the
least entitled to censure. Il 10 not
their fault that Jews are excluded
from their houses. The prescribed
race are not offensive to the land
lords, who think Is much of the He
breW's money as they do OF the most
.pious Christians. The public,
or the fashionable portion OF
it, is back OF the hotel folks,
compelling the latter to do
IS they are doing. Did the
public not demand the exclusion Of
the Jews, a landlord would hesitate
long before closing his door in the
taOs OF any respectable person-no
matter what the race of that person
-WEo Was able and willing to pay fol
his entertainment. Rabbi Some.
schein, in his address, hits ths toe
sentative Christians some hard blows
in the comparisons which he draws.
Referring to the "No Jews admitted
here" he said the notice might with
appropriateness be hung over the
doors Of numerous essentially Chris
tian institutions: So
On the doors of our orphan asylums,
houses for old, in6rm and friendless,
peGitentiaries, institutions for reformins
gam blers and drunksrds, and on the
scatcld Itself could we'll be inscribed the
motto: mo Jews admitted here"
It might be placed over the doors
,of the fOundling Asylums, as jewish
children seldom enter those placer
lie paid ashigh, but truthful tribute
70 the Hebrew women, and one which
ought to put not few OF our Chris
tan women to thu blush:
A Jewish maiden or woman may be-
come degraded, she may sink below the
level OF true womsnhood, but though sac
lose that greatest charm of womanhood,
though she grossly disgrace womsnly
virtue, trsmple womsnly delicacy in the
mire OF sin, though she do all this, still
In tSe Jewish woman there always re-
mains faithfulness and love fer her
offspring which is stronger than sin,
stronger than the despair of degradation,
stronger than death. a Jewish mother
never forsakes her child, leaving it to the
cold charity Of strangers. A jewish
woman feeds her child though she should
stsrVe to death. Well might the inscrip-
ton, "No Jews admitted hera," be placed
over the door Of the founding asylums.
The inscription in such place is no dis
grace to Jew. In such place it would
DO an honor.
There we're no public homes for
Jewish street boye, and no need for
any, though every Christian com.
munlty Of any size has more boys
requiring these homes and reforma-
tory institutions than the most liberal
Christian charity Was able to provide.
The old rabbi said fselingly:
No matter how degraded a Jewish
father may be, no matter how much q
drunkard or q gam bier, there will never
be Jewish street boy There will never
be little Jew wandering about and
feeding his soul and his mind with the
foul garbage of metropolitan AlDeywsys,
depending for existence upon the charity
Of the world. II there is one such boy,
one such father in this city, there are
1000 other poor fathers who would be
willing to work twice as many hours for
their daily wages in order to give that
poor, forsaken Jewish boy home and q
refuge.
His address was filed with such cut.
ting truths, which mus. have made his
Christian listeners vince At times.