Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-06-26


York Evening journal.
Mrs. Frank was stopping at the Marlborough Blenheim
hotel at Atlantic City
Her two neces coming to stop with her, and she
notGed the hotel that she would require for them
she asked if the nieces Jewesses, and when
she said that they were she was informed that the hotel
did not want Jews"
Thereupon Mrs. Frank. who is herself a Jewess,
promptly left the hotel Il is pity that every self-respect-
ing and in the place, Jewish Christian. did
not leave at the same moment
II the man who owns the hotel is responsible for this
insult to woman and to religion, his business should
be ruined, and he himself should be made to know that
there is actual meaning to New Jerseys law which
Furnishes with fine mprisOnment oRense such that
committed against Mrs. Frank.
man who would personally or through his agents in
suit respectable woman and that religion is not
Fit to be in any civilized country, and ordinary jail would
be too good Tor him.
Mrs Frank the victim Of this insult is Uf the highest
character one whom every 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 distributed his fortune
among various charities. treating all alike regardless Of
their religion.
Her fathers home il BatimOre beuuiul resi-
dence she has made into home for nurses. Ia one
hospital she gave $4,000 Every charity Of non-sec-
tartan kind in Baltimore has been helped BY her.
And this is the who is told that people Of her
kind are not wanted in a hotel
Unfortunately it not possible to put the blame for this
disgrace entirely upon the individual hotel or the hotel
proprietor h is fact only too we'll known that certain
classes Of Americans encourage discrimination against
.IeWs ksAssass
This discrimination is usually found ii the least desra
bic places the second rescrs boarding houses and
hotels
People that haven't brains enough be successful IN
anything else often try emphasize their responsibility
by affection OF superiority to somebody better than
themselves.
OF course the views Of the would.be cheap, little re.
spectacle nobodes are not important Such trash could.
Mt insult anybody if they tried happens. however. that
here and there Of real Importance. individuals other
wise OF decent character permit themselves to indulge in
these l-mannered and dsgracefu displays Of preu-
dice and religious prejudice.
shameful incident such as that at Atlantic City reflects
upon the country and upon the respect for law man
hes right to do as he peases his own house. He can
il he choose keep out his own mothers sister, If she
doesn't dress please him he doesn't think her quite
respectable" enough
But in public hotels public resorts protected BY the law
and licensed BY the law, there should be enforcement Of
.he law.
All good American citizens Of manly instinct should take
hand in this matter.
respecting man. and ought be possible arouse such
feeling as would make the guilty hotel owners and others
feel pain in their only sensitive spot which is the pocket
book
The time has gone BY in the United States for shameful
nonsense Of this kind Every American with a sense Of
fair play will denounce COwardy shameful disgracfu un-
American and unmany form Of backguardsm that attacks
simultaneously, woman, religion charity decency and fair
play els