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it, had been from the start that of loaning means for 

 every applicant to make a beginning as a farmer. He 

 recalled to the men the point of honor made by the 

 very first Jews arriving in the American Colonies, 

 when they vowed never to allow any one of their num- 

 ber to become a public charge, never to accept charity. 



My husband told them that he had too much re- 

 spect for Jews to think of the colonists assuming, at 

 that late day, any other position. It hurt him, he 

 explained, that the men he had always fought for so 

 consistently, should have assumed this strange attitude. 

 He always had felt especially happy when he had been 

 able to convince the Committee on other occasions that 

 the farmers were in the right, for he had been thor- 

 oughly in sympathy with them and their families in 

 the time when they were undergoing hardships in their 

 pioneer life in Woodbine, and he begged them to con- 

 sider the matter in the true and righteous light of 

 honest men. 



Anxious to act, as always, as clear-headed mediator 

 in his trying position, he had written to Dr. Goldman 

 under date of March 1, 1893, before the trouble over 

 interest payments. 



"I strongly advocate more help for the farmers. I 

 would suggest that we advance them $100 each to 

 plow and harrow the land; for, though they earned 

 good money during the first year of Woodbine's exist- 

 ence, still, considering that everyone had to build a 

 new home, and besides that, send a considerable amount 



