New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-24
HEBREWS TO FIGHT PROSECUTING.
SOCIETY ORGANIZED FOR PREVENTING Eff
FORTS OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES
TO CONVERT JEWS

The Indignation among the Hebrews OF this city
over the Dunlap affair has been great that 1t
has resulted in the formation OF society, one Of
the objects of which Will be 10 prevent in the future
the attempts OF Christian missionaries to convert
Jews. and particularly Jewish children. TO Chris
tianty number of the most prominent Jews OF
the city have already Joined the movement. and 1t
thought that the membership OF the society VIII
ultimately reach well Vi into the thousands. Tho
organization will be known as the Orthodox
Hebrew Society. One OF the first rumors that
sprang Up about the society was to the effect that
the Jews we're so reused over the Dunlap affair
that they had organized for protection and would
not hesitate TO use violent measures II any more
mission wa CONS were sent through the East Side
The Rev DR. Drochman Of the Sixty-seventh-st.
synagogue. who is the president Of the new So
ciety. denied this absolutely when seen by Trib-
reporter yesterday
I'VE contemplate such action" he said. and
I want 10 state emphaticaly that this society in
tends to gain its ends by peaceabe means. and
that 1t has not been organized for the purpose Of
doing anything by violence. Its object is the re-
gious. social and moral advancement Of the Jews
OF this city and there is TO be no blood splitting
OF any sort II help It. or course one Of our
main objects ts to try have stopped these
attempts TO convert Jews in the manner In
which some Of them have been recently put for
ward. We don't want to be placed on the plano
of savages and wild Indians and have Christian
missionaries come among US ana Try 70 CNIHZe us.
The Jews are OF some four thousand years.
standing and this trying to ram Christianity down
our throat should not continue. We are an organ
tied religious community just as much as any
Christian denomination. The Jews have been perse-
cuted for years. know. but the same thing has
happened between other religions or sects. as for
instance. between Protestants and Catholics. We
have survived all this persecution, and think We
have a right to stand on our own feet. But, re-
peat that all we expect to accomplish will be at
tempted by pedceable means.
''Of course there some things which are out
RACES and must be stopped somehow or other.
refer TO the branding Of Jewish children By Chris
tan missionaries This has happened right In this
city and the evidence of II lies In the marks on
the bodies of the children themselves. Nothing
can be done legally because the evidence OF child
to the identity of the perpetrator or the outrage
would not be admitted in the courts. | know that
these things have happened and | know OF men
who have, with red-hot irons branded crosses on
the arms OF little Jewish children. who were too
young 10 appreciate the significance OF the act. .
Presbytery and the various mission boards, can
not say anything about that. because our plans
are not yet definitely formulated. All that Is In the
future"
Max Cohn. a lawyer, of No Sc Liberty st, who 10
the vlce-president of the society Is at present
busily engaged in securing the records OF all the
missionaries now working the East SIDE so thar
the society will know what evidence II may rely
In furthering It's objects. letter Is also being
drawn up Mayor Van Wyck thanking MIN Tor
the part he has taken IN the recent Dunlap anair.