| Show POOR OF the more one examines and thinks over the he significance of the fourth of july riot in east baet boston the less lesa excusable does the abe outbreak appear either on albe par of those who participated in or those who incited it As A will be r remembered the whole rumpus web wati caused by the display ot 0 the little red in we tue procession it this as its ita supporters claim was wa mere ly to show enow honor to and emphasize the tn great mission and importance of the american common school abool the most moat fiery dory and unreasonable of our alien population could nut have hav found bound just juet cause lor auger but t abia does doea not seem to havu haves been the real and sole motive la in the instance referred to there Is ia in boston a very con eld sid erable element banging rankine under the banner of the A P A or the confessed ily anti catholic organization and these theae judging from rom the utterances 1 their own particular newspaper newe paper appear to thins they are the swe pro sectors of the american school abool and have bave a clear monopoly of its ite detente deien ae so that in this view the display DIOR n of was not a symbol of free non nono sec tartan education at all but bat of narrow bigotry and bitter intolerance it we wa therefore ber etore a challenge both impolitic and impudent and its ito acceptance by the catholics Catho lioa and ana their ay zero zera WAS wai of the same lame character there way war mighty small mall patriotism in the matter mattei on either side aide added to poor judgment on the part of some ome of the aldermen whose refusal to permit the chool boute in the display magni fled a feature that would otherwise have hare probably been almost entirely unnoticed with intolerance on one id and ignorance on the ot herboth baima fated by official it la in easy to understand undena nl how bow a conflict might ensue and equally easy to strip it of the grave arave significance which certain timid critics are wont to attach to it |
