Evening star., 1924-01-27
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
ENlN, one of the two great
arch-conspirators against the


arch-conspirators against the
- very tenets of civilization as
established through centuries
OF progress upward, is dead. The
oeher' Trotsky, who has brandished
'HFeats against all nations and
PROMISED extinction by the commun-
istio sword, is SO Ill there are grave
DOUBTS that he ever will assume an
important place in the Russian revo-
iutlonary scheme of things again.
Inese two men, one the brains of
tie movement, the other the eyecu-
TONER brought about Russia's physf-
Cal collapse. Through a weller of
blood of hundreds of thousands Of
russians who dared resist inroads of
'he conmunistic principles in Russia.
tnrough the period of complete dis
ihtegratfon of the economic. sociaI
ana financial fabric of the nation.
once consisting Of 100000 900 souls
Worria Mu IN the application of far-fetched
ruthlessiy in perpetuation of their
own interests. They overthrew The
oIa russian government that there
sus ne democracy, so called. They
,,:n o.a oltshSd IN Its stead a regime that
r.
snip, cold-blooded. merciless, in its
attempted extraction of the yery
Toots or settled order and progress
sselslon and its works were f1outed
,s,,1.,., mU1Ien IN the earliest stages Of the
ieVoiotlon were made as harlots, the
common property OF the public and
state. Wealth disintegrated. mediums
OF exchange passed. Once thriving in
oustrleS were gutted.
:, across the far reaches of Russia
peasant Of IL; IL e
ana means of obtaining grain to
plant that he might live, was grip
ped With famine. Gaunt forms with
niStorted faces cluttering the country
were grim evidences of the efficacy OF
the pananceas which Lenin and Trot-
SKY sought to graft onto nation
once prosperous, even though it was
horne down by unwise governmental
dictates.
Reach Ont Into World.
And with the stencil Of their vic
Tins blood in their nostrils. with the
thrill of handwrought chaos in their
veins, and brains heated by their own
elf-glorification, these men reached
out with insidious wiles and more
open effrontery TO carry their ideas
of national salvation" to all other
nations. From their troop guarded d
quarters in Petrograd. then from
MOSCOW, they were to rule the world
through the medium of an elaborate
communistic organization known As
the 1nternationale. The crack-bra ins
of the world f1ocked to bend humble
knee and with f1attery and beguiie-
ment perpetuate their own ends. To
the. leaders in Moscow went reports
; OF progress In all sections of the
old world and the new Conceit fat
tened and world viewpoints became
dwarfed. Their opaganda con-
tinued and continues today even
under the very nose of the American
government. Elaborate plans were
progress for the implantation of
MARKHAM doctrines. in themselves
repudiated by the degree OF Russia S
chaos.
Needless to say Lenin and Trotslly
In the flush of their victory discred-
tions. There was no democracy.
there was no progress. there was no
settled order. but in their stead a
repudiated nation, starving people.
ruinatton and damnation at their very
hearthstones.
Fail to Gain Agreements.
Seeing that the world was begin
ming TO suspect. sensing the fact that
the first principles Of the revolution
could not infiltrate in to the rank
and file of the people of the world
who really thought and were battling
for general human advance, Lenin
and TrotSky set in motion movement IS
looking toward beguilement of other
nations into recognition of the soviet
and such trade agreements as were
necessary to restore Russia. They
again failed after elaborate negotia-