The New York herald., 1921-04-24


Special Correspondence to TEE New YORK
HERALD.
Copyright. 1921, by THE NEW York HERALD
REvAL. April 2.
GREAT change is certainly taking
~ place in Russia but we must be
prepared for frequent outbursts of
Communist fury and the occasional cruci-
dxion OF capitalists who venture into the
lions den before the animals have been com
pletely tanned by Trainer Lenine. The entire
motive force OF Bolshevsm up to the present
has been Socialist fanaticism of an extreme
type; and no leader of men can excite
fanaticism of any kind without having
trouble with 1t afterward when he himself
becomes more moderate.
Lenine. therefore, may run some danger
from his own stalwarts for he is shifting
the props on which his power rests, and
the new pillars of his throne may not want
him. He got into power on the Communist
ticket. and now he is carrying out bour-
geois programme: but for the sake of their
own skins and on account OF Lenine's great
personal influence the Bolsheviks may for
the most part continue to support him, while
on the other hand the peasants platonic
affection for the old order may easily be
transferred TO any one who confirms him in
possession OF the land he has stolen. Napo-
leon. II must be remembered. found his
stanchest supporters among the farmers
who had divided up among Nhem the estates
Of the old French noblesse
Red Oratory Likely to Continue.
Whatever Lenine's Acts May Be
Lenine, nevertheless. win be bound TO
shock the West for some time by periodica
outpourings OF ultra Bolshevik oratory. But
Americans. who are fairly well accustomed
10 hot air" at home. should learn TO smile
tolerantly at the redhot blasts which will
blow across now and then from Moscow: for
il does not matter so much what the Boil
shevik leader says so long his actions
show that he Is really trying to establish
sensible system OF government.
Lenine has publicly admitted that he has
made. TO use his own expression, great mis-
takes" that he did wrong in seizing all the
crops OF the peasant the pretext that
everything belonged TO the State: that his
belief In a universal revolution was mad"
and that his treatment of the small crafts
man was based on thoroughly false prin-
ciples. Further than this one could not ex-
pect him to go.
A complete recantation there will never
be and there cannot be. for II Lenine pub
would turn on him and ask him why he had
not renounced them three years ago and
thus spared Russia all the suffering and
misery which the application Of those prin-
ciples entailed.
Furthermore, in the language that he
habitually uses. Lenine cannot be expected
to change, for this Is the only language that
he knows. He will continue till the end OF
his days to talk about "capitalistic tyranny"
"the Soviet Government OF workers and
peasants ~the dictatorship Of the prole-
tariat." &C., though there is certainly no
dictatorship OF the proletariat in Russia. but
only the dictatorship of himself and a few
Of his personal friends; though there are no
workers and peasants In the Soviet Gov
ernment and though he has embarked on
a course which win hand over Russia TO
foreign capitalists
Lofty Phrases Coined by Lenine
Already Are Suffering Depreciation
All great movements OF humanity.
whether right wrong, begin with these
large phrases. which retained even after
they have become meaningless Lenine's
lofty phrases about the Government of the