The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1922, Page 16

F ~“ yi THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1922, _ Michael Collins Emancipator of Ireland Keen of Brain, Fearless in Courage, Loved by His. Followers, Devoted, Like Our Own Lincoln, in Mind And Heart to a ‘Great Cause’ Which He Placed Above Everything Else, Collins, Self-Educated Country Lad, Grew From a ‘Wild Boy Rebel’ to the Stature of One of the World’s Great Soldier-Statesmen. “The Lincoln of Erin” they called Michael Collins, The remark- able parallel between the lives of Lincoln and Col » between their characters, their services to their respective countries and between the revolutions in English opinion regarding both, is to be seen in re- reading of Tom Taylor’s tribute to Lincoln, printed after his asssasi- nation in the London Punch in 1865, Most of the following lines from ‘Taylor's fine poem might he laid to-day as a tribute on the bier of Michael Collins: “My shallows judgment 1 had | “The taunts to tribute, the abuse learned to rue, to praise, Noting how to occasion's And took both with the same height he rose, unwavering mood; How his quaint wit made home- Till, as he came on light, from truth seem more true; darkling days, How, iron-like, his temper | And emed to touch the goal grew by blows. from where he stood, “How humble, yet how hopeful | “A felon’s hand, between the he could be; goal and him, How, in good fortune and in Reached from behind his back; ill, the same a trigger prest, Nor bitter in success, nor boast- | And those perplexed and pa- € ful he, tient eyes were dim, Thirsty for gold, nor feveri Those gaunt, —_long-laboring for fame. limbs were laid to rest! “He went about his work—such | “The words of mercy were upon work as few his lips, Ever had laid on head and Forgiveness in his heart and heart and hand— on his pen, Michael Co'lins—as an orator and, at the right, Collins in $ As one who knows where there's | When this vile murderer brought ] his milita: » uniform as leader of the Free State troops. a task to do, swift eclipse & Man's honest will must Heav- To thoughts of peace on earth, en's good grace command. good will to men. “So he went forth to battle on | “The old world and the new, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. the side , from sea to sea, That he felt clear was Liber- Utter one voice of sympathy (ee ight, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing C ‘i ty’s and Right's, and shame— Copyrigh (Ne & Evening World) by Press Publishing Company. As in his peasant boyhood he | Sore heart, so stopped when it a 5 we had plied at last beat high; T the welter of as, “Fe amt’ . f * ie 2 the words, “Forgive them” on hi His warfare with rude Na- Sad life, cut short just as its propaganda and cross-, tips, ture’s thwarting mights, triumph came! propaganda, of accu There ts another, lighter tale of his sations and oratory, 9¢ jncapacity to harbor ill-will against $S0/iNe! grew Up) destined work | “Vile Bind, that prandast irre blood and burning, of (oeane : to do, jor on a strife, aki audi MetaVEL Co ee nee Bie And lived to do it; four long | Whate'er its grounds, * stoutly | oe ' aye’. tratesshis humor, All the antl-Irish suffering years’ and nobly. striven; that has been to most elements in England referred to him Ill-fate, ill-feeling, ill-report | And with the martyr’s crown ' Americans “the news for montha before tho signing of the lived through soronnest: a) life of Ireland” during these last troubled treaty ay “the gunman." It. was And then he heard the hisses With much to praise, little to terenares years, the figure of a great man S1OW- Yjovd George's own pct namo for change to cheers, be forgiven.’ ly but certainly shaped itself. And that him, The historic conference in man ts dead Dow 5 F de: : ap is it Desig Set had ended I th cre tion to leadership in the Provisional Gov- “gunman” of the British Tory tireq but successful conferees—Irish a papers, grew before our eyes and In ang Engiish—stepped outalde to meet into the likeness of one Of the newspaper men, The tall “black Irishman," “Mike Collins, suddenty grabbed a rifle from a sentry or a Collins as he appeared at the time of his elec- our minds the world's great soldier-statesmen, the Irish Emancipator, the Lincoln of Miss Kitty Kiernan, fiancee Frin. And Michael Collins is ¢ than ever to realize that it wan an place,.and we know that "Mick"? Col- that one day he walked into the little, And Irishwomen loved him. One | ‘ a1 guncase — somewhero arby - = en loved him, One in era and his group, Collins decided he Like many another Irishman, he pee a nee Rearby—and Jyish Bullet which killed Michael Col- lins comes tn there frequently. Now cheap restaurant with a British oM- pariculan—Kitty Kiernan, beauty of must continis a : pie ey of Collins. fought for his country with weapons mie onset) ie soil ling, that he escaped ali his enemies all that you bave to do the next time clal—they had truce business to dis- p40 8 EMI uimiselttwnoleit HUrcaEe. in his hands. Unlike many another he “ttle Welshman” looked—let ty perish at the hands of his coun- he comes in is to go to the telephone, cuss. songford County, They met when, untry. us say, Interrogative, before the she cee hrov What dic * loo! ike? ‘era ina Irishman, he fought for her with that trymen call up this number and say, ‘Will Then the waiter woke up! ‘Then (7 °"* : Abe y rae - t v lid he look like? Here is keener and far more valuable weapon Collins grinned at him So many of them worshipped him! you send a taxi, please?’ ‘That's all he clutched ‘Mike’ frantically by the |. ie i ics pe ; sit) ny ; te description from men wh : oe 3 3 capture by the Black and Tans, whose kne ell: "A come 6 r et n his mind. Love of country to him ‘Come have your picture taken So many of them: would haye died a you have to do, and you'll be taken shoulder, Siena . Ae L : ‘ 1s) ‘ Md : nk A t. He wal : i a ’ . re rn , trround his hidden cabin she fast, he talks: fast, he thinks fast r ack with was not mercly a matter of emotion. “th the gunman,” he said million deaths before betraying him! care of. “Mike!” he almost moaned. "Do had somehor learned The lee His napp at r s. And no, That was the first great hour of Typical 1s the story of the po mehow learned. They fled t snapping blacl dart from It was a matter of bra ww little The waiter promised, effusively, to ye know who it is that ye're sittin’ even when Arthur Griffith died the victory. When we read of the fight- Dublin waiter, who worked in» cheap do the favor for the kind gentleman. down with? Look out for yourself, si _ ee Pattee terrae i ears i ‘ e i ; cana ae ' t eee) ms other day, thoughtful Americans did '"& hours that preceded it—the hours restaurant where ‘'Mi took his But never a word did the gentleman for the love of the saints! ‘That's and before they verted he promi tensity, He is as eoeneant ie pointed at the tips - vat not despair of peaceful freedom for °f hiding and hunting, of planning bite and sup now and then, in the hear in the weeks that followed the murderin’ devil that offered me to claim her aa his bride, “when Ire- with a lunging stride “itta we 19 (ors han "1 caibncllys the Irish Free State. ‘'Michael Col- and privation, of danger and devotion, harried a: before the truce ‘The truce came, like miracle. two thousand pounds wud I only tell land was free.” They were to marry hoyisl ney ooentis look Conn tt ; t "tng, with a wid ir i ie Jina ia left," they eaid to themselves, ' the Irish countryside and in mean A British officialtold that starveling Mike Collins walked the streets with him how to get at ye!" atten the [alenine Ge“ hec theater Ibu: Lleviak ecanoaie SP eae Gi fe Nae? jiln’ teeth, "Bue auece | ie aes tt te these Americans—Treland has StTeets of Dublin, it becomes harder waiter: ‘We've } 4 pone ant SUE PONS! 79) n Watching your no price on his head. It so happened That is how Irishmen loved Michacl, because of the disaffection of De Val- ind a lock of {t usually tumbling are the plercing no more earnest and unprejudiced es of a young hawk who fears well-wishers—who felt something very A e e A seat" sou hen “corre aent ? First Sinn Fein Dail Ei Many of Whose Members Sacrificed Their Lives |" 09. %u «» Ter ee Ee ee inn fein al treann, any o ose emoers sacririce eir Lives Ghyseall diseer or ances ce Hins in dead." Again, as after our own . 4 superb natural orator: 4 SA oe Civil War, a people is bereft of, its ; bravest, wisest, most devoted jeader fm an hour when victory over the forces of disunion und disorder 1s barely achieved—if at all brave and r—neverthel the thing that raised Michael Collins to ninating. position he ¢ resourceful upied 1 affairs was, simply and The strange parallel between Col lins and Lincoln—a FP lel holding nd the manner » He was more efficient, more vali State as Minister true even to the hour ste fh Heo of their deaths—is forced upon one Com r-in-Chief of th who would give even the briefest pic ture of the great, dead Irish patriot Like Lincoln, Michacl Collins was a poor country boy, self-educated the best brains in the from them all xn for whieh fight indreds of y And altho Like Lincoln, again, his early career was of the humblest—t ployee in the London Post Office be was an em fore he returned to Ireland and fought in the Easter rising of 1916. He had Lincoln's remarkable eap- acity for getting along with men ity—neither he nor our und enmity fr Lincoln's sa great President was an “impossibil- Yet.” He had Lincoln's knack of in- rom spiring the most devoted loyalty: \ ve n haan Lincoln's unflinching endurance of eeu at ned wit criticism and brutal hostility even ° "A {vom those who should have known on : and believed in him most He was ¥ . Li like Lincoln in er bearing KEYSTONE , PHOTO. : 8 eva ; grudge. And he had Linculn's gift 1 of laughter The first Sinn Fein Dail Eireann (irish Parli \ soupy are : . : . brings Traitorously shot down tn the hour the men in the picture suffered privations and exile tor uy Second Hg P. Maloney, I. MeSwinty, B if Mulcahy. J Tas. Hayes, € i alling fe OMaiilie,, JO Marray BiOietigeins, J nd 1 ; Bis of his ever-increasing triumph by his. and many of them sacrificed their lives Doherty, J. ’ Mahoney, J. Dolan, J. McGuinness, P. O'Keefe, M Burke, K. O'Higgins ‘ own countrymen—a fate historically Bottom row, left to right—l.. Ginnell, M. ¢ | ke Staines, J. MeGrath, Dr. Cusack, L. De Roiste, W. Colivet, Father Fourth row—J. McDonagh, J. McEntee , paralleled by our own martyred A Griffith, President De Valera, Count Plunkett M 1 (Flanagan, Vice President of the republic hifth row—P, Beasley, R. Barton, P. Galligan If that be Ireland's future, Michael President—AMichael Collins died with Cosgrave, E. Bluthe, a Third row—P, Ward, A. McCabe, D. Fitzgerald, J. Sweeney, Sixth row—P. Shanahan, $. Etchingham Collins died for it a happy warrior, ’ i