Evening star., 1922-06-11

threatening secession and riotous Sc
cret meetings were held almost
nightly in Moscow among those plan
ming revolt against the soviet policy
of compromise with capitalism, con-
cessions, etc. this fury was restrained
by one magic word-Lenin. All be-
lieved in him, respected and loved
him-even the opponents of his new
policy.
Vladimir Ilyitch Ulianoff. called
ienip in political and literary life
was of the old-time Russian nobility
est revolution of all history. The
time is not now to speak of his work
and character. What's important now
is what comes after him. Nobody can
replace him. Marks doctrine of eco
nomic determination mocking per-
what one mans leadership Is worth
in stormy times. Trotsky, with his
steel will and abundant intelligence.
was the organizer of the red army.
Menshevik before the war was dis
putatious, obstinate and capricious.
and sometimes has been accused of
inclining to the grand dukes stand
ard of living. Litvinoff, KraSsin.
Simoneff and Radek are not of the
highest type of Russian. All lack the
hundredth part of Lenin's art of rul-
ing. The latter alone could dare give
called nationali1ed property; abandon
communisms outward signs: reopen
money circulation for private trade,
banks and the stock exchange: seize
church treasures; even convoke the
resisting priests. including the hon
ored patriarch, Tychon, before a revo-
lutionary tribunal. He alone could be
forgiven by the radicals for granting
concessions to the foreign "proflteers.
exploiters Of the proletariat. who
must be humiliated and enslaved," as
the revolutionary program provided.
transition to real democracy with
coalition government
Lenin's Views General
Almost everybody believed that
what Lenin thought necessary was
indeed necessary. The peasants.
workingmen. even those whom he
bitterly assailed, affectionately called
him ''Ilyitch," and this pet name
tired working in his shabby coat
amidst the Kremlin's ancient splen-
dor, among the three holiest cathe-
drals. under Car Ivan's sanctified
bell tower. where Ilyitch might have
become in reality what the peoples
the Russian czar OF the new dynasty.
The Romanoffs themselves once be-
longed to the small aristocracy. and
the half-mystical Car Rurik the
First came from Viking lands. But
Lenin, unlike Napoleons had no de-
sire for such a fame, so the world.
before signing relief at his death.
should pause-for after him Is chaos,
unless the earth's wisest powers pre-
vent 1t by careful management of the
Russian minds and customs. There
will be separate. dissimilar govern
ments, civil wars, dictatorship of
more than one peasant prophet, COM
plete devastation of the vast terri
tory whete today 25.0aQ.000 are dying
and S0,000,000 are destitute and re-
turning to cannibalism. However. so
long as his death Is kept secret. boil
shevism remains, but 1t cannot sur
vive Lenin, as everything falls with
him.
All Genoa's cunningness. the incon-
gruous Rapallo treaty, The Hague
conference, becomes old lumber, scrap
iron and waste paper. Never in mod
ern times has a single individuals
death entailed such dangers. They
are not only for Europe, for 1t is
question whether Japan won't take
Of Russia's chaos, and Eu-
rope, which has staked all on Rus
sia's reconstruction. could not survive