New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-13

ENIIIuN1L CEIME.
TIE I9v3lR Ec)nowiSf proposes an lmpracti-
cab,cc1prdient fot securing life ard property in
Great Britain against Irish plots f0'med in the
United States. Il contends that tic English
people have a light to demand tie negotiation
of a treaty binding both Government, to make
consuiiacy to murder o. to destroy property be-
vond their own confines an offence punish
able before their own criminal courts. III this
way cocl. country would bring 30 trial before It,
own ied.cs those Who were cons bring .aiu9t
hfe and property ia The Others territory the
Government not bcins concerned in tie
prosecution Which would ne coh1U''o
rs an ordinary ciim A"I ih"r, ny reg
ula!lY o'S1h z'd I'i'"'.'!' '"i' p'"i'a"
il carried INTO eject would c"''Ir me
British Government 10 secure through ura'F
law tie pun!>hn'Ht ol those "Ao S"ond
couspi!c i'll America aSans' lie and property
in England. i l. lmWrcucabIe because Only
one country requires 50 extraordinary q meas
uIc Of protection acah,' coisriidc.es iinm "a
foreign base. The ultrt states "oYc!hHch'
Ia not exposed 10 the ,pcC1. danger nom con
Spiracy tIat miyht Justify the Bliush Ho'clH-
ment in negotiating a convention i1r which
modern treaty laH offers no precedent j. can
not. therefore, hc expected toimqofc anon .t-e.f
extraordinary obligation, solely for Oh" con-
vcnionco OF England in governing Ireland
Agains. an international compact Of that
SOFT public sentiment in Tie United State
would au.iily revolt American, NAV have
the hirl,.t fccliu,s forward England, and mag
hold rs So. .iua,ionf and dynamite plots in exc
Grafton, bat they have 80 disposition 10 adopt
lt,,fie A lafitl
Government dil 'Dma'ic and political AID IN l''
desperate efforts to govern Ireland especially
when that method would secure them asan>,
dangers to which they are not now and never
can leczto,cI.
That American officials, National State OF
municipal, ought to be invested with power 10
arrest and punish those who engage in wanton
plots ag4insl life and property abroad Ike tho
recent dynamite c0nsp.racleS, we have lCd
AID still hold. II American law does not ana
them with such power as we fear IT does not
fire fact is dj>erriitahla 10 the country, and the
law ou.ht O.. be speedily amended. There ought
70 he some legal means Of repressing suCh
crimes and OF prosecuting those who partici-
pate in them. II other countries have not
taken the prccaution TO ann their tribunals with
similar powers AGAINST the same class of crimes
AGAINST civilization, the United States ousht
to SET them fine example. Let American law he
amended in this rrspect for il is for the interest
r civilil.tinu that this sLouId he done uolitical
,0.,... or c,ur... hciu., rioidly excluded from
i,s oucr,,ion Bnt LEI there be no recourse to
.ncci,I convcutior, and Diplomatic contacts.
and LOT mot ono alone but all foreign Govern
,,o,,,s sbo,e in tLc uancGts conferred Amer
ian tribunals or.ht to have the power under
American law 10 punish crimes against ciyilizl-
tion without being bound by any international
convention TO do 50 and without reference 20 any
foreign Government in particular that may
uroft by such acts of legal repression
.oo,.o,.. ,,liI wa, b.,.o Loo,, co,,si5or;,,,
,,c not rxtraditable and can he dealt with. if at
all only bv American tribunals. They lie ont
side tbe orovincs of treaty law. Let us now
refer to a elias, of cases not Affected by The
Icouoo,isf's proposal-thosc that are now extra
ditablc under the treaty of 1912. That was
one of the first of a long series of cytraditron
convcrtions ncgotlltcd by the United States
aud consequently il contains the shortest LIST of
crimes ror which rugitivr, can he surrendered
and in il, warrants and ro,isiou, il i, tue least
o,,1icit The trcati.s which have been concluded
with some of the petty south American States