The Holt County sentinel., 1921-07-22
OF NARROW MIND
Writer Denies Lenin Any Ele.
ment Of Greatness.
Tragedy in His Early LIE Largely In.
hueneed the Actions Of Sinister
Russian Revoiutionist

irr.n. that extraordinary Russian, IL
NelI enough known 10 the world as
'oliii,.an and leader, but little known
a. n personality. W. IL =. Basevi. In
he Forum. discloses some interest.
~ inc,s regarding the educational and
neral influences that early shaped the
hlrscier of this sinister revolutionary
mo that went toward the making Of
he man who hss turned the tremen.
ious tloe of vas, empire
Until piT," writes Mr Bssevi, "he
sns merely one of host OF dis.
sruntled eiiles. wanderers In foreign
abd, Who lived from hand TO mouth
~ FREE slsnce Journalism. or picked W
prs,srious livelihood ~ tourists
ruidss or by iectUrins and teaching
hussinn. assisted st ibfreaueni aud un.
erisin intervals BY reiuiiisnces from
reluctant relatives, snd loans from
friends. Driven by poverty a. well ~
., conviction TO join the underw orld
u revolutionary ibirIguers, and to Join
n plots against the government ~her.
ever they might be. they were always
amer Surveillance BY the police, aud
we're compelled TO change their names
a. frequently ~ their homes 10 order
'o s,sde pursuit and gain n little res
piis."
AUD continuing, Mr.. BHsc,i says:
Vladimir llylich Cuhnon, whose
nom de- guerre Ia l,enin. IN the sun OF
% member Of the lower order Of the
hcrrdiiEr, nobility TIE father sppar.
'utl, had revolutionary theories which
ieniu and his elder brother put into
practice Tie two boys were educated
Il III, kH.Hn university, aud here oc'
rutr.d tragedy which vas probably
ia. turning point IN Ieuin's career. His
elder brother was executed for com
Iliciiy IN u plot To- hssassiuHte the car,
Alexander III II is not difficult to un'
u.rs'Euu the eject of this distressing
event uIru M emotional And courage
pus youth ALREADY convinced that nh'
sotuti'm was the cause ot all the irOu.
hles ~ his unhappy country. In his
eyes his brother was n martyr, and he
himself was ready for the same fate
But ruhriyrdom whs not his fate. II
that n yet to come, II h.. n 10 meet
hls death ~ RssasSiuation, which IL
@o frequently the sud of rrNolutionnr'
,rs. II will c,ins by strange irony, not
10 the cause Of liberty, hut for ex.r'
risinH n d,spotic tyranny unknown Ia
~ the history ~ the cEhrs, lsnin WAS
etJ~lled from the kaysn university for
participating IN n political demonStrn'
tloh. lie studied law nt the Univer'
sity Of reirogrhd, aud In later years
was eSlled 10 siberia for his conDec'
ton with rsyoluilonaries In switzer'
land. Much Of hIs life was spent
abroad, and he married q woman who
had been exlled for solcing extreme
~ hat Roh-sp,erre Wa 60 Gamelln
Eysrisie Kari Msrs and Engels are TO
Lenin. Prom his own writings II 10
evident that he 10 q man with q narrow
hut acute intellect, and possesses the
purely deducuvs type Of mind. His
tendency 10 TO discard oil compiler and
confusing facts, and for the sake of
rlesrness ana simplicity to consider life
and men as abstrhction
ITO LeniD, MARI and Engels are the
prophets Of new religion, and Das
Kapital q holy Koran, every word In
splred. To criticize Il " blasphemy
10 differ from II the most damnabls
Of heresies II Is the first word and
the last. the Alphn aud Omega, the he
ginning ana III. end Of economic doc
trins. The entire domination ~h!ct
thes< works exercise over his IN
tellectual faculties IL evident ihr"ng'i
out his writings, To confute al nd
versnry he quotes text and feels th'