The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-11-24
Allen, Larkin and O'Brien.
Chas. B. Egan Delivered an ELOQUENT
Address in Their Memory.
A GOodly Number From Great Falls
at the Black Diamond City.
A Dance, Speeches, Songs and a GEN
eral Good Time Partici-
pated in.
The Sand Cou1ee Celebration.

The arrest, the trial and tie conviction
OF Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, the two
latter Irish-Americans and the first, a
bright young Irishman only eighteen
years old, for the accidental shooting of
Sergt. Brett in the streets of Manchester
and their execution upon the testimony
OF single witness, woman of shame
less character, who was enclosed in the
prison van and therefore could scarcely
have been witness at all, constitutes one
Of the foulest blots in the records of Eng
lish treatment of Ireland.
1t was to recall this event that the
lrish-Americans of Sand Coulee gave
their annual address and ball Friday
evening.
About seventy-fve went out from
Great Falls to participate and were very
jolly crowd. Their arrival at the Coulee
was honored by bonfire and they pro.
ceeded at once to the new school house
The assembly was called to order by
Michael Cryan, president. Then follow
ed Irish ballads rendered in spirited and
soul stirring manner:
The Three-leaved Shamrock ck......
By Mr.. Delaney of Neihart
| Barney flew over the Hills to his Darlint ~
| Observation-Disclosures. BY MI. Pollock
Dublin Bay. ay.......................B By Mr. Pickern
The songs were appreciated and the sing
ers vociferously applauded.
Mr.. Cryan next introduced Mr.. Chas
B. Egan, formerly mining engineer al
Sand Coulee and now engaged in simi
lar position at Neihart. Mr.. Egan an.
nounced that this was the 22nd anniver
sary OF the events they commemorated
and then in feeling terms alluded to the
brutal murder of DR.. Cronin and its bear
ing on the Irish question, 1t was the
foulest blow struck at Irish liberty since
! the time Of Robert Emmett. But much
of the hue and cry oyer the matter is the
last breath Of now-nothingism and is
for political effect. Mr. Begg's arrest
(this was affirmed later by Mr.. Delaney
also) is but the result of his high position
and is aimed at the Irish cause. In this
trial, individuals and not a whole race
should be blighted by the foul stigma Of
murderers.
All over the world, upon this evening
like celebrations are being held. Irish
Americans wherever they are must by
nature uphold the claims of liberty and
of the oppressed. They must and will
aid by sympathy, counsel and, not least
by cash. In this cause Amt ricans will
not defer to the power of England L
has been too much the tendency to ig-
more the Injustice of the revolution, the
war of 1912 and her bullying impress
ment of American sailors. The memory
of the pro slavery sympathies has not ye'
passed away nor will it. But murder
can find no defenders in Am erica wheth
er by the steel and secret bomb or the
assassin or by hired witnesses in the
courts of justice. Read the history Of
Ireland; not as concealed by Froude, MOI
as ignored by Hume, nor in the brilliant
pages of Macaulay but as written in the
Irish blood by English bayonets. BY
special, by general, by no law, England
! has kept her foot Upon the neck of the
vanquished but they will ever strive tc
throw it off Canada, Scotland. the
Channel Isles and the Antipodes may
tamely submit but never Ireland.
Mr.. Egan then quoted celebrated opin-