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

Nlkolai Lenine, radical Socialist.
 editor author and agitator. over threw the provisional government of Russia in November, 1917, and set up
 the Bolshevik government of Rus
 sia in November, 1917, which ne- gouated a treaty with Germany at
 Brest-Litovsk Not only did this
 peace treaty put Russia out of the war; but 1t set up a process of disin- i tegration in which the vast empire formerly dominated by the Romanofs fell apart until there remained oDly
 that portion commonly called Little Russia.
 Whether Lenine acted as a paid
 agent for Russia, or, as he contended.
 in the interest of the Russian So
 clallsts and working classes is vet question to which history mas not
 yet gwen a positive answer. There
 has been a very wide belle. among
 the people of the entente nations that henine was wiling and conscious
 tool oi Germany. At any rate il las been widely asserted that he could not have served Germany better ii
 he had been in the employ or Empe- TOT Wilhelm.
 Lenine obtained his domination of the Russian proletariat largely bv reason of his program of dividing the land among the peasantry and giving the factories and visible wealth ol the empire to the workmen. The rev. oIution which he led against the gov ernment Of Alexander herensky was therefore, more economic than poH- tical.
 Under Lenine's regime confscation Was the order 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 manufactu- 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 the ranks to be commanders. The former emperor, Nicholas was brot from Siberian exile and asasssinated in Southern Russia. Russian civili- zatlon was topsy turvy. Virtual cha os prevailed. Under Lenines direc- ton the Bolsheviki fought the enten- te who entered Russia to rescue the and to re-establish some kind of order under which real Russian opinion might be found.
 Such was the state of ruin into which Lenine's leadership led the people of Russia when the bullet of l girl assassin first laid him low. He ater suffered two serious paralytic strokes, followed Monday by the hird and last.
 Lenines real name was Vladimir lyitch Ulianoff He was born at Simbirsk, Russia, April 9, 1870. His ather was director of the elementary school of that city. His brother, evolutionary, was hanged at Petro- grad, in 1877, for his part in a plot o kill Emperor Alexander III. Vlad- mir or Lenine was later expelled rom the University of Kazan for spreading socialistic views.
 In 1895 Ienine organized the union or the Liberation of the working ;lass and for that was exiled to Si- )eria. At the expiration of the pe- 'iod of his exile he returned and fig lred prominently in subsequent rev buttons against the emperor. He edited numerous radical socialist pa- )ers. After the Kerensky govern nent overthrow the empire, Lenine, with other Russian revolutionists, vas given passage through Germany o Russia where he in turn over .hrew Kerensky. This was consider sd as proof that his revolution was financed by German authorities.