The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-16

Current Opinion refers to Nickolia Lenine, the Bolshevki premier, a of many mysteries. By this time the public is well informed about Trot- sky, but Lenine has not been in the public eye so much. Current Opinion says the latter is Jew. Continuing it says:
 Not drop of Hebrew blood is discoverabe in his ancestry for generations if the personal history of the man be truthfuy told in the Rome Avanti The Socialist organ is his euogst, of it's i'm pressions of mild. spirtuazed and magnetic Lenne contrasting vivdly with the subtle villain incarnate to the London Post in this vladimar Uanoff Lenin. This from nowhere the British organ calls him, has many biographies he has He has been plain Ulianoff Zederbaum Rudovith Grat- schky. His homes have been all the continent of Europe. Nevertheless says the organ Italian Socialist, denin-his rightful the Ulianoff hy phenaed with Lenn in signatures being tri bute to h3s mother-is true Russian the of man banished in his time for his political opinions Lenn's brother executed for treason in the old Romanoff days.
 "Lenn himself in the character sketches published abroad appears to have been born Moscow foryfive years ago, being trifle older Trotzky Lenn, like Trotzky, got part of his education at the great University at Odessa Trotzky and Lenin-by is such accord recent dispatches suggest are as the poles apart in aspect. Lenn the maternal side inherits the melancholy and of the Great Russian stock from which his mother sprang. She transmitted Lenin the Avanti says
 
 hair. light in youth and now reenforced with beard long. The steeldarsbue of the eye, the width of the brow and the repose of manner lend Lenin off the platform the blinking gravity of the tradi- tional German professorial type, particularly since he took occasional wearing of horned specta, ces. He is unlike Bosheviki in general his habit of carrying light In his bigness-lacking fat -Lenin mpresses all fnelooking. The chin, masked by the beard, is strong and the jaw is firm with pronounced Adams apple Lenin looks well in beard but he has gone shaven priest, especially when in flight from the old spy police.
 Lenins capacity to influence the young. espec- aly those of instincts and intellectual keen ness, is conceded by the European newspaper pondents who draw such hostile portraits of him in the Paris Temps and the London Times. Krylenko, the luckless Bolshevik commander, is conspicuous example. From the time he appeared at the univer- sty in Petrograd until he the Bosheviki, Kryenko swore by Lenn. So did Znovieff another scion of an old house. fighty and fantastic, heir to a great landed property and a convert to ''the ideas" So did Techicherin, the unhappy man put in prison by the English when he appeared in London Ambassador from the Bosheviki. He is the son of former Mayor of Moscow wealthy in his own right, educated bureaucrat with bright future but Lenn made him a revolutionary. This strange pacity of Lenn's to throw the spell of his own magnetism the ardent souls of inexperienced idealists is source of his power The Avanti must go for parallel far back Socrates who charged with corruptng the youth of his native city just Lenin held responsible, ten years before the war, when a brilliant student in the mill tary academy by throwing up his commission in the army and joining the revolutionists.
 Tt is predited by the knowing that Lenin will disappear as mysteriously he He has a genius for disappearance turning up in out of the way places in Galacia, in Switzerland. in San Reno in PortuguaL He lives under assumed name upon a revenueesaid by his foes to come from the Germans; but his friends point to the fortune left him by a wealthy lady many years The wife of Lenin is said to have been heiress His followers