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Daniel J. Burke, attorney for several of the defendants in the riot trial at Charlestown, which went into its second day yesterday was ordered out of the courtroom by Judge Charles S. Sullivan, presiding magistrate, at 11.58 yesterday morning when he tried to extract testimony from the police concerning the purpose of the demonstration last Thursday...
Your excellent editorial of yesterday entitled "Causa Belli" betrays such a perspicacious analysis of the issues in the Charlestown incident, and such an equilibrated sympathy for all parties involved, that I feel sure into have been inspired by the following fable from the works of an obscure disciple of Aesop, Permit me to quote from...
...Boston communists and their contingent of sympathizers from Harvard and M.I.T., according schedule. However the battle of the navy yard, like most Red rallies, was pretty much a deed loss, hostilities having ceased without the respective prestiges of the demonstrators, Herr Hitler or the Charlestown police being raised or lowered appreciably in public esteem...
Just what specific grievance the Charlestown agitators and their collegiate stooges were actually demonstrating against is a subject still shrouded in the dust of City Square, but the idea seems to have been that the denting or the sleek gray sides of the "Karlsruhe" and the possible laying out of a few sons of the Fatherland by well-placed brick-bats would be a peculiarly suitable method of getting Herr Hitler to do something. That supposedly intelligent students of two of the country's leading educational institutions should affiliate themselves with a demonstration that is certain to awake no popular...
...Charlestown affair was just one more example of the aimless and poorly conducted demonstrations which a certain number of students in any institution can always be led into supporting. The fact that the participants in Thursday's brawl did not distinguish the particular bone they proposed to pick with the cruiser's crew, although we presume it had something to do with the curbing of personal liberty in Germany, reduced their fracas to the ignominy of childish "bull" baiting. The astuteness of the police in parking their pistols and resorting to skull crunching left their opponents without even the satisfaction...