HOMICIDAL PEDANT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19033, 10 June 1924, Page 12

HOMICIDAL PEDANT.

THE MURDERER LENIN. The brain of Lenin was as narrow as his cruelty was intense, says Mr. Charles Whiblcy in the “English Review." He had no faculty of thought or reflection. His philosophy, if the jargon that he wrote and talked may be dignified by so august a name, was merely a rehash of the facile, superficial heresies of Marx, a miscreant who knew better than most the poison that might lurk in words. Lenin made war on learning, science, and the arts. It was his fixed creed that nothing save the proletariat should survive the vengeance of which he gave the signal. The idol of those who had always eried allowed for “liberty” he made them understand at once that they should obey his orders or perish in misery. Restored to Russia by the Germans, he abased his oompatriots before the enemy, and set to work to make an end of their industry and their wealth. He waged a savage war upon all those who did not accept his domination, and wiped out all classes of the community who did not work with their hands. He made the rich poor, and did not enrich the poor by a single half-penny. The doctors fell before the same edict which sent scholars and writers to their doom, Lenin turned Russia into a desert. Lenin was of the breed of Robespierre—a homicidal pedant. He put to death and to torture more men for the mere reason that they did not agree with him than any man that ever lived. Perhaps, says Mr. Whib ley, that is why the intellectual Socialists of England bow down before his memory in solemn worship. One critic of politics has gone so far as to say that he was the cause, direct or indirect, of 30.000,000 deaths; an over statement, no doubt, and yet it is evident that in the killing of men and women he has outdone the record of all previous monsters. How poor a murderer does Robespierre appear, or Le Bon, when their exploits are measured with his!