The Keota news., 1921-07-29
OF NARROW MIND
Writer Denies lenin Any ele'
ment Of Greatness.
TRAGEDY In His Early LIE Largely IN
susnesd the Actions OF sinister
Russian Rsvolutionist.

well enough known to the wor'd ~
politician and leader. but little known
us q personality. ". II. !. baseV'' III
the Forum. discioses some interest
Ing facts regarding the educational anu
moral Influences that early shaped tue
character Of this sinister revolutionary
and that went toward the maxim. OK
the man who has turned the treineh'
dous tide Of u vast empire.
Until 1917" writes Mr.. Basevi. "he
was merely one of host OF u.s.
gruntled exiles. wanderers In foreign
lands, who lived from hand TO mouth
by free.lance journalism. or picked up
a precarious livelihood rs tourists
guides or by iccturing and teaching
KussInn. assisted al infrequent nnd un'
certain intervals by remittnnces from
reluctant relatives. aud loans IRON
friends. Driven by poverty rs well as
BY conviction to Join the underworld
Of revolutionary intriguers. aud to join
In plots against the government whcr'
ever they might be. they were always
under surveillance by the police. aud
were compelled to change their names
as frequently as their homes In order
to evude pursuit and gain little res
piie."
And continuing. Air. Basevi says:
.viadlmir ilyitch UlianoY. whose
nom de gicrrc Is l.enin. Il the son OF
member Of the lower order Of the
hereditary nobility. The father appar'
ea;iy mad revolutionary theories which
lcnin and his elder brother put Into
practice. The two boys were educated
at the Kaxan university. and here oc'
CURED tragedy which WAS probably
the turning point In Lenin's career. His
elder brother was executed FOR COM
piicity In plot to sssassinnte the cznr.
Alexander III. It 10 not diflicult to un'
dcrstand the effect Of this distressing
event upon an emotional and courage
Gus youth. already convinced that alb
solutism was the cause Of all the trou.
blcs In his unhappy country. In his
eyes, his brother was martyr. and he
himself vas ready for the same fate.
Hut martyrdom was not his fate. II
that Is yet to come. II he II to meet
his death by assassination. which 70
70 frequently the end Of revolutionar.
les. II will come by strange irony, not
in the cause Of liberty. but for exer.
cising Q dcspotic tyranny unknown 10
all the history Of the cxars. Lenin was
expelled from the Kaxan university for
participating In a political demonstra.
tion. He studied law at the Univer.
sity Of Pctrograd. and in later years
was exiled to Siberia for his connec.
tion with revolutionaries In Switxer.
land. Much Of his life was spent
abroad, and he married woman who
had been cxiied for voicing extreme
"What Robcspierre wns to 0nmelip
Evariste. Karl Marx and Engels are to
l.enin. From his own writings It 10
evident thnt he is man with narrow
hut ncute intellect. and possesses the
purely deductive type Of mind. His
tendency Is to discard nll complex and
confusing facts, and for the sake of
clearness und simplicity to consider life
and men as distractions.
ITO l.enin. Marx and Engels are the
prophets Of new religion. and Das
Kapital holy kornn. every word In.
spired. To criticize It Is blnsphemy:
to differ from It the most damnabls
Of heresies. It Is the first word and
the Inst. the Alpha and Omega, the be.
ginning and the end Of economic doc.
trine. The entire domination which
these works exercise over his In.
tellectual faculties IL evident through.
out his writings. To c0nfute an ad.