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Show Page 12 The UTAH INDEPENDENT July 16, 1971 LINCOLN AND LENIN Continued From Page 10 Some time in the course of the 1970s, the issue will be decided. There are many ways of con- trasting these competing systems. Over the years , Ive often found myself thinking of them in terms of the two men: Lenin and Lincoln. It seems to me that Lenins tomb in Moscow and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington are symbolic of the men and of the ways of life they represent. The Lincoln Memorial is a beautiful, gleaming white. Lenin's is a hard, highly polished, metallic black. Visiting the Lincoln Memorial you go up the steps into the white light of day. Visiting the Lenin Mausoleum you trudge along a narrow hallway, the walls of which are dark, deep red. Eventually you turn, go down steps, turn and go down more steps. Finally you are some 30 feet beneath the earth in a small, eerily lighted vault, shuffling around a rectangular pit of blackness out of which emerges a black stone shaft, atop of which there's a thick, black marble slab. On this slab, bedded on a luxurious red silk cushion, there lies the body of a man Lenin. Over the lower part of his body a red flag has been thrown. Just below his crossed hands there is a golden object gleaming in the dim, blue light that comes from overhead the crossed sickle and hammer. closed in as in a dungeon; in the other you seem to be a part of God's grest In one, though you are looking at what remains of the actual, physical body of a man it is unquestionably something dead and artificial. In the other, though it is chiseled marble, warmth and life somehow bresthe through it. You look up to a tall, gaunt man with a out-of-doo- rs. kindly face, whose brooding eyes are turned toward the gleaming dome of the capitol of the nation he held together. What a contrast in the charac ter and the meaning of these two men! Lenin once declared: It's a fight to the end, to their complete annihilation." He was referring to our annihilation, to the annihilation of all peoples and the destruction of all institutions not specifically and completely Communist dominated. Lincoln said: With malice toward none. With charity for all. . . ." Lenin devoted his entire life setting one class against another. Lincoln said: You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help the wage-earnby pulling down the wage payer. Lenin said : Nothing is right or er wrong, false or true, good or bad, except as it furthers the revolu- tion. Lincoln said: With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. Lenin said: One would like to caress the masses but one doesn't dare. Like dogs, they turn and bite. Lincoln said: God must have loved the common people; he made so many ofthem. At the Lincoln Memorial, you raise your eyes and look up. To view a waxen Lenin, you look down. In one, you are tight-lippe- Fodsiy d, mi DOhART $6.00 Per Year Carpel Cleaning Let us Clean your Carpet the Modern Way1 SPECIAL SPRINGTIME DISCOUNT . 9 FREE ESTIMATES. REASONABLE. GUARANTEED SERVICE ON ALU WORK and receive at 81 EAST UTOPIA AVE.. SALTLAKE CITY. UTAH PH. 363-077- 1 art Whitney OR PH. 467-331- 0 don Williamson iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiimimiimmimiii I2N no extra cost a copy of CLEON SKOUSENs THE NAKED CAPITALIST new book THE NAKED A review and commanUry on Dr. Carroll Outgloy'a book TRAGEDY AND HOPE CAPITALIST Reviewed by W. CLEON SKOUSEN This offer good on new subscriptions or renewals. Separate copies of THE NAKED CAPITALIST are available at $2.00 each. Independent Box No. 6274 bait Lake City, Utah 84106 7UP. Tlic Uncola, now in 16 ounce ks. Available at most dealers served by 7UP bottling companies in Salt Lake and Provo, M Mtt WMM Subscriber's Name Address |