Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26
MOSCOW, Jan. 22.--NikoIa Lenine Soviet premier of Russia, died Mon- day afternoon at his country. villa near Moscow Death came from paralytic stroke.

NiI,olai Jenine. radical Socialist
 editor author and agitator, oVe" threw the provisional government O. Russia in November 1917, and set ur the Rolsbeyik government of Rus sia in November, 1917, which ne xotiated treaty with Germany al Brest-Iitovsk Not only did this peace treaty put Russia out of the wlr, but it set up process oi dlSln- tcgration in which the vast empire formerly dominated by the Romanoffs fell apart until there remained only that portion commonly called Little Russia.
 Whether Lenine acted as paid agent for Russia, or, as he contenued, in the interest of the Russian 50 cialists and working classes is yet question to which history has not vet gwen a positive answer. There has been a very wide beliel among the people of the entente nations that Lenine was a willing and conscious tool ot Germany. At any rate 1t has been widely asserted that he could not have served Germany better if he had been in the employ of Empe- TOT Wilhelm.
 Lenine obtained his domination of the Russian proletariat largely by reason of his program of dividing the land among the peasantry and giving the factories and visible wealth of the empire to the workmen. The rev oution which he led against the gov ernment ol Alexander kerensky was LiereluIe, more economic tnan poli tical
 Under Lenine's regime confscation was tie oruer of the day The Soviet seized the great estates and divided them among the people while factory workers took over the factories and machinery from heldless manuiactu- rers. The middle classes were the special objects of hatred of Lenine and his associates and they were per secuted in every conceivable form
 Soldiers and sailors leaped from tine ranks to be commanders. The former emperor, Nicholas was prot from Siberian exile and asasssnated ill Southern Russia. Russian civili- zatlon was topsy turvy. Virtual cha os prevailed. Under Lenine's direc- tion the Golshevlki fought the enten- te Who entered Russia to rescue the CZecho-Slovaks and to re-establish some kind of order under wnlcn real Russian opinion might be found
 Sucn was the state Ol ruin int which Lenine's leader ship led the people of Russia when the bullet oI s girl assassin first laid him low. He later suntreu two serious pdralytic strokes, followed Monday by the i: third and last.
 Lenines real name was Vladimir 1lyitch Ulianon He was born at Simbirsk, Russia, April 25, 1870. His father was director o1 the elementary { school of that city. His brother, a revolutionary, was hanged at Petro- | grad, in 1877, for his part in a plot | to kill Emperor Alexander H. Vlad- 1 tmir or Lenine was later expelled ! from the University of Kazan for i spreading socialistic views
 In 1895 Ienine organized the union for the Liberation of the working class and for that was eXiled to Si beria. At the expiration of the pc riod of his exile he returned and fig ared prominently in subsequent rev. olutions against the emperor. He edited numerous radical socialist pa pers After the Kerensky govern | ment overthrow the empire, Lenine, with other Russian revOlutonists, | was given passage through Germany to Russia where he in turn over- threw Kerensky. This was consider cd as proof that his revolution was