The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-06
Who Is Lenine?
Russia's New Premier Of Noble Birth.
Brother Shot by Gear.

II you haven't been in prison or
exiled you can't be a political leader
in Russia. Birds of freedom there
are all jailbirds. Most of the mem
bers of the latest radical cabinet
have done their bit in Siberia. Some
Of them escaped compulsory service
in the mines by coming to America.
AS ragged men who dreamt OF the
day when poverty, injustice and ig-
norance would flee before the ad-
vent of equal opportunity for well
being they cut little figure here.
Back in Russia they are heroes.
Under the tyranny Of the czar the
more educated q man was the. more
radical he became. Such is tbs case
Of Nikolai Lenine, who has set him
self up as leader Of the Bolsheviki
and premier OF the Russian cabinet.
Like most other revolutionaries, he
has had to use an alias. His real
name is Vladimir nytch Unlyanoff,
and he comes from a noble family.
He is about so years old, ten years
older than his lieutenant, Leon
Trotzky.
Gar Killed His Brother.
At the period when the sons OF the
nobility were becoming impregnated
with hatred OF the autocracy. his
in a plot to kill Gar Alexander III
shortly before the successful assas-
sination OF 1881. This deed, Keren-
sky has said, impressed him might
" as a boy, and there are those who
say that today this Russian states
mans heart is with Lenine, however
afar his better judgment may lead
him. This may be taken to explain
the mild attitude Of the deposed
premier toward the Bolshevid.
In the early 's0s Lenine became .
leader Of the radical social demo-
Gratis, who insist on a literal appli-
cation of the international program
of Karl Marx, as against the nation
alistic view which pays greater at
tention to the peasants and their i'm
mediate needs. One OF his books,
The Development of Capitalism in
Russia, is considered a valuable con-
tribuition to economic literature. His
articles on agrarian and scientific
problems are considered authorita-
tive.
Russia Sent for Him.
The new radical premier was elect
ed to the second duma after the rev.
olution Of 1905, but was compelled TO
go into exile, a thing he often had
done before, when the reaction trl-
uEuD0EQ. AT NUG VA sA@ 1880
he was. in Austrian Poland and was
informed as an enemy alien. After a
short time he was allowed to go to
Switzerland, where a colony OF RUS
sian revolutionists already was
established.
After the revolution the Russian
provisional government entered ne
gotiations with Germany by which
the Russian revolutionists in Swift
zerland were allowed to return
through Germany in exchange for
the release Of German civilians in
Russia. Lenine headed the party,
and his social program which he has
been advocating ever since was
drawn up as he passed through Ger
many in a closed train.
With Trotzky he began to preach
Immediate peace and general con-
fiscation of the land. To their school
OF thought the outcome of the war
Is not Important, and what Russia
needs most is peace, that its people
NAV enjoy the fruits Of socialism.
They want the land to belong to the
men who pIow 1t and the factories TO
belong to the men who work in
them. Lenine is one of Russia's
greatest orators, and with his de-
mand for the end of wars has built
up q great following, both among the
Ignorant peasants and the scholarly
men of the world. among these latter,
Maxim Gorlxy.