The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-06-08

MIS-. HiaHk was stopping at the
Marlborough-Blen hotel at At
lantic City.
Her two nieces were coming TO
stop with her, and she notified the
hotel that she would require room
for them. She was asked if the
nieces were Jewesses, and when she
said that they were she was in
formed that the hotel did not want
Jews"
Thereupon Mrs. Frank, who is
herself Jewess, promptly left the
hotel. 1t is a pity that every sell-
respecting man and woman in the
place, Jewish or Christian, did not
leave at the same moment
If the man who owns the hotel is
responsible for this insult to wo-
man, and to religion, his business
should be ruined, and he himself
should be made to know that there
is an actual meaning to New Jer-
sey's law which Furnishes with fine
or Imprisonment an offense such as
that committed against Mrs. Frank.
A man who would personally or
through his agents insult respect
able woman and that woman's re-
ligiOn is not fit to be in business in
any civilized country, and an ordi-
nary Jail would be too good for him.
Mrs. Frank, the victim of this in
suit, is of the highest character, one
whom every man should gladly treat
with honor.
She has devoted her entire life
and all of her fortune to helping the
poor.
After her husbands death she dis
tributed his fortune among various
charities, treating all alike, regard
less of their religion.
Her fathers home in Baltimore,
beautiful residence, she has made in
to a home for nurses. To one hos
pital she gave $4,000. Every char
ity of non-sectarian kind in Bal
timore has been helped by her.
And this is the woman who is
told that people OF her kind are not
wanted in hotel.
Unfortunately it is not possible to
put the blame for this disgrace en-
tirely upon the individual hotel or
the hotel proprietor. 1t is a fact
only too we'll known that certain
classes of Americans, usually the lit
tie, second rate, woulti-be respect
able nobodies, encourage discrimina-
ton against Jews.
This discrimination is usually
found in the least desirable places,
the second rate resorts, boarding
houses and hotels.
People that haven't brains enough
to be successful in anything else
often try to emphasize their "re-
spectability' by an affection of SUI
periorit to somebody better than
themselves.
OF course, the views of the would
be, cheap, little respectable no.
bodies are not important. Sucn
trash couldn't insult anybody if they
tried. 1t happens, however, that
here and there men of real import
ance, individuals otherwise of decent
character, permit themselves to in
dulge in these ill-mannered and dis
graceful displays of race prejudice
and religious prejudice.
A shameful incident such as that
at Atlantic City reflects upon the
country and upon the respect for
law, A man has right to do as he
pleases in his own house. He can,
if he choose, keep out his own
mothers sister, If she doesn't dress
to please him or If he doesn't think
her quite respectable" enough.
But, in public hotels, public re-
sorts, protected by the law and IL
censed by the law, there should be
enforcement of the law.
An insult to a decent woman is
an insult to every self-respecting
man, and it ought to be possible
to arouse such a feeling as would
make the guilty hotel owners and
others feel a pain in their only SEN
sitive spot, which is the pocketbook.
The time has gone by in the
United States for shameful nonsense
of this kind. Every American with
sense of fair play will denounce a
cowardly, shameful, disgraceful, un-
American and unmanly form of
blackguardism that attacks, stimuli
taneously, woman, religion, charity,
decency and fair play.