The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-07
RUSS PREMIER
OF HIGH BIRTH;
IS SCIENTIST
Birds of Freedom in Russia
Are All .Jailbirds.
(Kansas CITY starry

lied you cant be political leader In
Russia. Birds of freedom there are
all jailbirds. Most Of the members OF
the latest radical cabinet have done
their bit In Siberia. Some OF them es-
capped compulsory service in the mines
by coming to America. As ragged men
who dreamt Of the day when poverty,
injustice and ignorance would Zee be-
fore the advent of equal opportunity
for well being they cut little figure
here. Back In Russia they are heroes.
Under the tyranny Of the car the
more educated a man was the more
radical he became. Such Is the case
of Nikolai Lenine. who has set himself
up as leader OF the Bolshevih and pre-
mier Of the Russian cabinet. Like
most other revolutionaries, he has had
to use an alias. His real name Is Via.
dimir Ilyitch Unlyanoff, and he comes
from q noble family. He 10 about fifty
years old. ten years older than his
lieutenant Leon Trotzky.
Gear Killed His Brother.
At the period when the sons Of the
nobility were becoming impregnated
with hatred Of the autocracy, his elder
brother was shot for completely in
plot to kill Car Alexander II shortly
before the successful assassination Of
1881. This deed. Kerensky has said.
impressed him nightly as boy. and
there are those who say that today
this Russian statesman's heart is with
Lenine, however afar his better judg-
1nent may lead him. This may be tax
en- to explain the mild attitude Of the
Geposed premier toward the Bolshevi.
XII.
In the early nineties Lenine became
a leader of the radical Social Demo
Gratis, who insist on literal appnca-
ton of the international program OF
Karl Marx, as against the more nation
elistic view which pays greater atten-
ton to the peasants and their immed.
late needs. One Of his books, "The
Development Of Capitalism in Russia"
is considered a valuable contribution
to economic literature. His articles
or agrarian and scientific problems
are considered authoritative.
Russia Sent for Him
The new Radical premier was elect
ed to the second duma after the revolu-
ton of 1905, but was compelled to go
into exile, a thing he often Lad done
before, when the reaction triumphed.
At the beginning Of the war he was in
Austrian Poland and was ipterned as
an enemy alien. After short time
he was allowed to 90 to Zimmerwald,
in Switzerland, where colony Of Rus
sian revolutionists already was estab-
lished.
After the revolution the Russian
provisional government entered nego-
tiations with Germany by which the
Russian revolutionists in Switzerland
were allowed to return through Ger.
many in exchange for the release OF
German civilians In Russia. Lenine
headed the party, and his social pro-
gram which he has been advocating
ever since was drawn up as he passed
through Germany in a closed train.
With Trotzky he began to preach i'm.
mediate peace and general confiscation
Of the land. To their school of thought
the outcome Of the war is not impor-
tant. and what Russia needs most is
peace. that it's people may enjoy the
fruits Of socialism. They want the
land to belong to the men who plow it
and the factories to belong to the men
who work in them. Lenine is one of
Russia's greatest orators, and with
his demand for the end of wars has
built up great following. both among
the ignorant peasants and the scholar.
ly men Of the world, among these lat
ter Maxim Gorky.
rrotzky Sent to Siberia
The sky Is the limit in the game of
Leon Trotzky, Russia's new foreign
minister. When the car was deposed
Trotzky was living in a tenement in
New York City. He was penniless,
and leaders Of radicalism on the east
side contributed furniture for his use
in the two months that he was in
America this man, who now issues ap-
peals for universal peace to the peo-
pies and rulers of the world worked
on a Socialist newspaper for $12 a
week.
Articles signed by him we're so radi.
cal that frequently the editors of this
Russian daily censored or deleted
them entirely. Those who knew him
best say that Trotzky is an honest
man, though misguided radical
He is about forty years old and has
been journalist associated with the
revolutionary movement for twenty
years. Some say he was born In ST.
IBERIA, others that he comes from the |
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