Will all the world ever be tolerant? Jgclge Hilton, of
New York, executor of Mr. Stewart, and proprietor of the principal hotel in Saratoga, has just issued a notice stating that he will admit no Jews to his hotel—a notice directly contrary to law, which forbids .8mill exclusions on amount of race, colour, or creed—and the Vicar of St. John's, Taunton, ;has formally, re- quested Mr. Jacob Myers, the Jewish mayor of th,obormigh,, to deny the report that he is an unbaptised person. This denial, he writes, is necessary to relieve the town councillors of the "dis- tressing imputation that "they' have-knowingly elected as repre- sentative of the town one who does not believe in Him whom they profess to worship." 'Mr. Myers, in a very dignified though short letter, replies simply that he is proud to. be a member- of the Hebrew faith, and equally proud that his Christian friends and neighbours have not permitted religious differences to in- fluence them in their choice. We suspect that the Jewish nervous- ness about public opinion, which is so observable both in England and America, is based upon a better knowledge of the intolerance still lingering in society than other menU possess. Living Jews
still remember the explosion of popular anger which followed their first admission to municipal office.
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