Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-20
AMERICAS HEBREWS
THE PART THEY WILL TAKE IN The
oUApRi-ceNTENNiAL.
A Demonstration Emphasizing the Con-
trast Between American and Other
Jews-sugges.Ions TO This End.
rBy telegraph to the Dispatcb.l

New YoRK, June 19.-From advance.
sheets of the Je'oisA Messenger of tomorrow
is taken the following interesting matter
relative to meeting held this week in the
synagogue on west Nineteenth street 10
take action for a becoming participation
in the approaching quadri-centennial by
the Hebrews Of this country as race aud
as Americans. Among other thing the call
for the meeting declares:
AS Americans we will. of course, join
with heart and soul in the reiOiclngs of
cur fell0w-citizens for the countrys prosperity
A HEBREW DEMONSTRATION.
"But IL is proposed that as Hebrews We make
demonstration in a tangible fOrn-hrsi, in re-
cOgnifion Of the blessings We enjoy In this land,
because such action can but attract the attention
OF auti-Semitic Legislators in other lands 70 the
contrast between their Hebrew subjects and the
Hebrews OF America This, coupled with the
fact that Hebrew integrity, energy, and enter
prise 80 powerfully contribute 20 American pros
perity, may awaken those pOtentates aud legis-
lators TO % wider, nOhler, more generous policy
toward our brethren in their domain
The call WAS signed by sixty prominent gen-
tlemen from the leading cities OF this country.
BY resolution tho matter OF plan was referred
to a committee OF tWeuty-onc 10 be appointed by
Hon. a. :. SOlOmons, the chairman.
SUGGESTIONS MADE.
Among the suggestions already made with a
view 10 carrying out the ideas embodied in the
cali for the meeting we're the following:
A Jewish university, In line with the grcat
Catholic and Protestant universities for the pro
motion Of intellectual studies, open 20 alieXcept
that 1t shall be jewish in standing.
DR. DRACHMAS.
One Of these things: A national fund TO endOw
n rabblnate for Washington, for In no city In the
Union Il a man OF learning and eOquenec more
necessary than In the capital Of the country; or
raise a fund 10 purchase books, Transitions, and
original works on Judaism and the Jews % be
placed In the new National Library a. Washing
ton, and 20 be known as the "quadri-ccuten-
nial' contribution OF the Jews Of the United
States, and 10 remain separate pnd distinct az
such; or 10 raise money for an hsrOic
STATUE or THOMAS JEFFERSON
to be erected In the square bordering on Penn
syyanis avenue and Seventh street. whero all
men, women, aud children can see how much
the jew honors the author OF the immortal De-
claratOn. SIMON WOLF, OF Washington.
DR.. Cyrus Adler has written suggesting the
creation Of n fund % foster original jewish
science and kindred subjects 20 be entrusted 20
the Jewish Publication Society, the United States
Scientific Bureau, the Library Of Congress, or
the Smithsonian Institute and the erection OF a
triumphal arch AZ Washington.
The committee OF twenty-one which IL 60 con-
slider the subject OF the celebration will be ready
20 report at tho adjourned meeting, which will
be- held some time next September. IL Is pro
posed 10 carry OUT the idea most nttingly and
make IL an assured SUCCESS.