The Keota news., 1921-05-20
Writer Denies lsnh Any eIe-
ment Of Greatness.
TRAGEDY In Hls Early LIE Largely In.
nuenced the Aetlon0 eS Sinister
Russian novolutlonlo1

u peJBOu0Utys W. 8ss - sSo~s'S -
the Forum. discl0ses some Interest
Ing facts regarding the educational and
MORAL influences that early shaped the
character Of this sinister revolutionary
and that went toward the making OF
the man who has turned the tremsn'
dous tide Of q vast empire.
"Until 1917" writes Mr.. Basevi. "hs
WAS merely one Of . host Of dis
gruntled exiles. wanderers in foreign
lands. who lived FROM hand TO mouth
BY free-iance Journalism. OF picked up
. precarious livelihood ~ tourists
guides or by lecturing and teaching
Russian, assisted at infreQuent and un'
certain intervals By remittances from
reluctant relatives. and loans from
friends. Driven By poverty - we'll %
By conviction to Join the underworld
Of revolutionary intriguers. and to 5o'n
In plots against The government whsr'
ever they might b. they were always
under surveillance BY the police. and
were compelled to change their names
% frequently % their homes 10 ordee
to svade pursuit and gain little re-
plte."
And continuing. Mr.. Basevi says:
"vladimir llyiteh Ullano6. whose
nom Dc guerre " Lenin. h the son oe
q member Of the lower order Of the
hereditary nobility. The father appar'
ea;ly mad revolutionary theories which
Lenln and his elder brother ~ into
practice. The two boys were educated
at the Kaxan university. and here oc.
CURED q tragedy which was probably
the turning point In Lsnin's career. He
elder brother was executed for com
plicity In plot to assassinate the car.
Alexander Ill: Il 10 not dl@cult to un-
derstand the effect Of this distressing
event upon an emotional and courage.
ous youth. already convinced that alb
solutism was the cause Of all the trou.
bles In his unhappy country. 10 his
eyes. his brother was . Qartyr. and b
himself was ready for he same fate.
But martyrdom vas not his fate. II
that 70 yet to come. II he u to meet
bis death BY assassination, which q
20 frequently the end Of rsvolutlouar.
ies. Il will come By strange Irony. not
In the cause Of liberty. but for exef.
cislng . despotic tyranny unknown IN
all the history Of the c1ars. Lenin was
expelled from the Kaxan university for
participating in . political demoustra.
ton. He studied law at the Univof.
sity Of Petrograd, and In later years
was exlled to Siberia for his counec.
tion with revolutionaries IN Switses.
land. Much Of bis life WAS spent
abroad. and no married . woman who
had been exiled for volcing extreme
opinions. 80.
"What Robsspierre was to 0amelip
Evariste. Kari Marx and Engels are to
l.enin. From his own writings Il %
evident thxt he u man with narrow
hut acute intellect. and possesses the
purely deductivs type Of mind. His
tendency II to discard all complex and
confusing facts, and for the sake Of
ciearness and simplicity to consider life
and men a. distractions.
ITO l.enin. Marx and Engels are the
prophets Of new religion, and Das
kapital q holy Koran. every word 10.
spired. To criticize Il u blasphemy:
to differ from It the most damnabie
Of heresies. It 10 the nrst word and
the last. the Alpha aud Omega. the b.
ginning and the end Of economic doc.
trine. The entire domination which
these works exercise over bis In
tellectual faculties 10 evident through.
oat his writings. 10 confuts an I'd.
versary he quotes text and feels the
matter II settled"