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Show JKU1MI PROBLEM. If hu UrnllleF.iUUIetl Iu Ho lei K'rivllinfft? Vrenu Opinion! on Ihls Iiuper-lunt Iiuper-lunt Xuiilc. New York, 20. The controversy between Soligman and Hilton ban called out much diacustion and commune. com-mune. The Times this morning priuU eight coin mug of corraapoo deuce und iuterviewa with prouiiueut hotel keepers througtiouttUecountry, particularly at tue watering place. Hie general pobition taken in d cidedly apposed lo that of JLidf Hilton, although there are a fen hotels iu this city where Jewish cuti torn is openly discouraged ou grouuda Bimilar to Ihoso alutd by Hilton. Seligmau'a attorney BtaLee i n a letter to the Times thai 100 Jewish merchants withdrew their accounti yesterday from tho house of A. T. dlewart & Co., and he ulimateo the loss of trade which thia detection is likely to be to thi houhe at from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 a year. The Sun closes an editorial as followB: The Jewn have been rapidly uiiiujk up aiviy atcuuv wj hohu buu prosperity in thia free country and they have become a very important purt of our population. Their thrift m proverbial and their increase ie very rapid. While the liberty to delect one's own associates u anion k the most edsenlial and highest privileges of social lift, yet at a time, that Euglaud with all her ancient predelictiona for race and religion has accepted a mun of Jewish birth for her prime minister and hai ennobled , other Jews, this eccentric action of Hilton in excluding Jewa where negroes ne-groes muit be admitted cannot fail Lo attract a good deal of altenlion. The Tribune iayi : American people peo-ple detest unjust and invidious distinctions, dis-tinctions, especially when they are based upon diflerences of creed, and they will always respect people who respect themselves. The Herald closed an editorial thus: It is to bo presumed that Juilge Hilton intended do insult, but he was strangely thoughtless and inconsiderate. incon-siderate. If the head of the great bouse of the Rothschilds should happen to visit thia country during the present season he would be excluded ex-cluded from the principal hotel of one ol our watering places because the proprietor does not approve of bis religion. re-ligion. Even the prime minister would be looked upon with eucpician by the hotel clerk, fur he was born and bred a Jew, and might not happen to have in his pocket a certificate ol Christian baptism adocument as important im-portant in ttiat evangelical institution, the Grand Union hotel, aa the Bank of England notes to pay his bill. We have no doubt that Judje Hilton will regret bis mistake whan he sees in what a ligth it i viewed by the Dublio. There are some persons even among toe neDrews, wuo concur with vVashiDgton Nathan in an extreme ex-treme reticence, implying an indisposition indispo-sition to criticize tho judge adversely, il, indeed, they do not privately approve his course. Ttiis ia only significant of the fact that they atlect to consider the question aa purely a personal or social one, aod not involving involv-ing religioua ideas. It is not creditable credit-able to American liberality that everybody concurs iu denouncing Judge Hilton, if bis purpose is to proscribe because of sectarian faith. Lauterback, tiligman's attorney, in a statement to the prase, characterizes charac-terizes Hilton as a narrow-minded bigot, whose rtcleclion aa judge wm defeated by lawyers and others ol loreign end Hebrew birth whom he systematically snubbed when on the bench. He names several besides Seligman whose applications for rooms at the Grand Union have failed of favorable responso, "though an oflenaive reason therefor was not stated, and only inferred from Selig-man's Selig-man's case. Lauterback states that an early public meeting on the subject sub-ject ii contemplated. Hilton diaclaimi any personal difficulty diffi-culty with Seligman, and renews the declaration tbat his refusal to admit tha Hebrews is baaed on business grounds aolely. To a Herald reporter he said : The reason of Selig-man'a Selig-man'a animosity secma very plain. We formerly purchased Irom him our foreign exchange, but ainco I have been at the head of the firm we have not uone so, uecuuse -i do not consider the house as safe as some others. Lately I have learned that he has been traducing me, though he baa all the time been very aflable in my presence. Ai for the house of A. T. Stewart & Co. they can ttand it if Seligman can. It acems to me that it is our own business busi-ness whether we are loeing money or not. We do not wish to press people to buy goods from us if they do uot feel so disposed. Seligman dons not by any means represent the Jewish sentiment of the city; he has thrown the Hebrew Bible and book of Moses out ol the window lung aeo. They don't like him in the syndicate, and would get him out if they could. Ho received bis appointment under Grant through Tom Murphy. 3- (or nn the hbtel is concerned, con tinued the judiro, I have taken the proper course and 6 ha 11 adhere lo it. Other people will not go there if the Jews congregate in such large nuni-berii. nuni-berii. They have completely ru'ued Sharon Springs and almost ruined Long Branch. Tho Grand Union suffered last summer from thia course. After all this man amounts to notu-ing, notu-ing, and I do not propose to enter into any controversy with him. It in stated by a New York hotel proprietor that the difficulty was tho ri.LiU nt a ouarrel at the Grand Uuion last summer between Mrs. A. T. Stewart and Mrs. Seligman. Mrs, Stewart, it was Baid, was insulted by the tatter Isdy, and in consequence had given orders this season that no Hebrews should be entertained at the Grand Union. Judge Hilton further Baid: Suppose Sup-pose I Bhould usaert tiiat Joseph Selinmaa owed some of his most vaunted oilier to the practice of the veriest Shyiockean manuera; that the house of A. T. Stewart & Co. withdrew with-drew their foreign exchange buBinnas I from Jjetigman'a house because the i,n,iuo nf Srnwfirt hud In nav trio rreat a discouut to get tho Seligman ccitili catea cashed iu Europe, owing to the lact that the Seligman house was' - found to do husiursa in n dangerous excf-es ot their actual capital, r rtud that to-day the Seligmans owe th?ir position in the syndicate to political influence, not equarely secuicd inBtead of any financial bottom, bot-tom, and that the position ot the r Seligmans iu the syndicate is just as distasteful to the other members of that organization aa their presence iB considered in tho Grand Union hotel, and that ao utterly devoid of good standing are they in tho syndicate among the really solid men of it that the Rothschilds will only hold inter-t'ourie inter-t'ourie with the Seliemana when these interviews are absolutely unavoidable, and will oven meet them only at second hand or through a clerk. Supposo I should publicly assert these things of tho Seligmans, I would only be making this controversy a personal one, after the example Bet by themselves, them-selves, and if I Bhould assert these tilings tho Seligmana know that I would substantiate every one of them. The Seligman Jew, Baid Judge Hilton, Hil-ton, represents nothing that is standard stand-ard Hebrew. He is to the Hebrew what the shyster ie to the legal pro fession. He has made money; he must advertise il in his paper; he is of low origin, and his instincts are oi the gutter. His principles smell of decayed goods or of decayed principle, prin-ciple, but he has extracted cash out ot his gutter. Ho ia too obtuse or too mean to Bee his vulgarity, or go where it may not be on public exhibition. exhi-bition. He is shoddy, false, squecz-iuK, squecz-iuK, unmanly; but financially he it successful, and that is the only token be has to push himself upon the polite. po-lite. He is as audacious as he ia vulgar, vul-gar, as buBy as he ia worthleea; as vain as he ia devoid of merit, and he is Duffed out with as much import ance as he ia poor of any value. He comes to the Grand Union big with himself and little with everybody else in the decent world, planka down his cash with his royal order, and having never seen the respectable world he cannot get enough to eat unleae he gorges down his unpractised throat six meals a day, and then for fear folks will not know that he is an old epicure he protrudes hia ill-shapen pod in tlie gazo of every unfortunate person in his path who has open eyes, and then he goes to his room and reports himself tor the next day's gluttony by ridding himself of bis torturing load all over the furniture, with groans at its loss that disturb j every decent person within ten rooms : on .every side of him. They have deserved the common contempt they get, and they have brought the in jurioua reflection of their vulgarity upon tbo true Hebrews. The rich-nuca rich-nuca of tti ia new country has tended to propogate the breed, and tli breed has cursed the Hebrew race socially. In this country people won't go to hotels where the Seligman Jew is admitted, and hotels, if they would thrive, muat keep out those who would ruin their existence, and the very fact that the Seligman Jew makes such a fusa because the people don't want his society, and makes such a noise to forco himself whera he is unwelcome, instead of going elsewhere proves bim to be just what I describe him. |