The Labor enquirer., 1884-08-30

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= ven llknoWn laWsIIer 81 New Fork wrute
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imply to II which rs selt % t&e iprela, n
cupchad Ii terms q evasion md insult; m
thxe were passages ii Il which IA sasiy show
"a thst be and ~ o6icial assistant In tn
i sate DEPARTMENT xere acting together IN th
case. IS
It was then tta4 that true American, th
late 8. p. Dinsmore, of the Stockholdei
wrote powerful srticle Of protest in whicl
he said: Possibly Is some enc has suggest
ed, Hit the subordinate may b playing 10
Russian money. The emperor's govern
nent would give . million dollars, aye, man,
millions, to get Hartmann surrendered to ii.
vengeance BY the great republican govern
nent Of the world. The Russian agents here
know that the secretary Is too wise to be
used to this end. They may think, however,
that it could be done through subordinate 3
1T actually looks" Eve quote from the
New York Sun OF August s, 1851 "as though
the state department OF Washington were
advertising for sealed proposals for Hart
mans delivery to the car AZ regicide.
Even before the Russian minister has made
any demand in the case, this man Hit runs
out to the newspapers and advertises the
readiness Of the government to issue the writ
Of extradition. Is that diplomacy? Is that
the style Of free republican government,
which ought to conduct negotiations over
such matter with the utmost canton and
the gravest regard for public and private
rights, for legal methods and diplomatic re-
serve? II is a scandal, and ought to have
thrown Hit out of the state department as
soon as he got bis scandalous interview in
print"
i Remember here, that we have no extradi-
ton treaty with Russia for the surrender
even Of common criminals; that If Hartman
had been given up by the state department,
it would have been outside OF any law; that
if Hartman had been executed In st. Peters
burgh, it would not have been as an accom-
plice in attempted murder, since murder is
not punishable with death In Russia, but as
political criminal and conspirator, for treason
against the car. whose bloodthirsty. despot-
SIN has blighted his country and filled the
wastes of Siberia with his victims
Having learned these facts and others,
having ascertained that the state department
was about to put him under arrest, having
oeen brought to realize that, as long as he re-
NAMED here, he was in immediate danger of
seizure and extradition to Russia for a.deed
which even the British government had de-
Jared to be purely political, Hartmans ad-
Users determined that his only safety lay,in
eing beyond the reach of Blaine, Hit and
he Russian agents.
He made his way to Canada, took up his
esidence there, was given to understand
nat Canada had no law by which he could
9 extradited to Russia, and found under the
ritish flag the protection which had been
enied him under Jim Blaine's American
agile. L.
1t was, as we have said, the most shameful
iece of work perpetrated by James G.
laine while secretary of state---a piece of
'ork such as was never before done by any
lnctionary of the American government
piece of work In base contrast with that
one in the cases of Martin Koszta and P. j.
heridan. IN
"Did James G. Blaine, asks our Brooklyn :
rrespondent, Storm Myers, ''offer to de- {
yer up Hartman for money2p Was the I
litter of the immense reward for the extra 9
tion Of the dreaded revolutionist seen in
g state department at Washington? I
We cannot tell. The Third Section of the
nssian government does its secret work in
ays which no man can find out. Et,g
But that jobbery of the grossest kind pre- s
lied in the state department under Jim
aine, no man who has read the story of his,
,ruvian intrigue will doubt. And the Rus
ars always pay for services rendered pay
money. N3I, 4tE