Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-30
He Says Hebrews of The State
 Are Organizing.
WOULD SUPPRESS REPORTERS.


 NIr Silverthau Says Too Much Promin-
 ence is Given to His Race, Particu-
 larly When the Case Is Not Favor
 able Reporters Have No Interest in
 the Matter Except to Give the News
 and Identify the Man so That Read
 CTS May Know Him.
 Phil Silverthau, the New Haven jeweler, who is as well known Tn Wa terbury and in other cities of the state as he is in his own, is authority for the statement that the Hebrews of the state are backing movement to sup press all newspaper references that carry undesirable distinction to them as people or individuals. MT Sil- verthau is very prominent among the Hebrews of New Haven and 1t is talk en for granted that he is as we'll known in the synagogues here. He is heart and soul in the movement against the caricatures of his people on the stage and in this respect he Is hand and glove with the Irish. But he says the movement should go fur ther than the stage; it should reach the and that is the object of the movement he is conspicuous in now. When he came here on his us- ual weekly trip he stated that news papers who make it a business to pub fish such reports as "Isaac Goldenstein, the Hebrew, was before the court this morning charged with drunkenness" or 'Isaac Goldenstein, the Hebrew featherweight, spared ten rounds with Jack Daly last night" etc, will soon be presented with request to cease such notices There is as much reason, he says, for stating Jack Daly's nationality as there is for stating Gold enstein's, but if the notice was favor- able or congratulatory MT Silverthau is of the opinion that Goldenstein's na- tionality would not be mentioned. This is only a matter of opinion, however. What strength the movement has at tained he would not say, so that it may be as yet merely ill it's infancy, or it may be growing giant. He thinks that all reference to ones nationality should be omitted in newspaper arr ticles, that everyone here is American, or intends to be, and that should Suf- fee.
 This is a matter that newspapers may have something to say about; re- porters at least cannot fail to be great ly interested, for ones nationality is mentioned in a newspaper article merely for the sake of Identification. It is a matter of no importance to re- porters,, further than the reason stated, whether the characters in newspaper stories are Jews, Gentiles or Japanese. Reporters, perhaps, would incline to the opinion that in all probability in every case where nationality is men, tioned one particular race is very apt to be injured.
 Only within two weeks instances of this kind have come up. Not later than yesterday morning, in fact. Be- fore Judge Burpee i'll the city court al young colored man gave the name of Dennis Mitchell. He was charged with very low offense. Were it not mentioned that this man was colored. no one would for moment take it that he was not white Some time ago the wife of one "Bill'' Collins made herself very unpleasantly conspicuous. No- toriety was given to one race because no one thought the woman or her hus- band were not members of that race. yet the Bay of Biscay. part of the At lantic ocean and the English channel flowed between the respective coun- tries alluded to- Tn the recent breach of promise case heard in the district court a family named Tobin was made very conspicuous. No one for a mo- ment supposed this family were Lith- uanians. A few years ago. during Mayor Bar1ow's administration. the city pay rolls were full of English and Irish names, yet. the owners were col- ored men and Italians. Even the stage, elevated as 1t is to-day more than it has ever been, contains false names, and the- prize ring contains hundreds of pugilists who are living under names to which they have no right or claim. So that it is apparent that MT Silverthau's movement will have many an uphill obstacle to con- tend with. A man before the public is like witness on the stand in court: everything in connection with his life is open to the public