The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-05-04

would be summer visitors from
Washington and Baltimore, where
Morgantown has already an envis-
Bile reputation as summer resi-
dence. Wheeling would send its
quota, aud it would not be long un-
til one hotel would be wholly incap-
able Of meeting the demand.
Here is business opportunity
that is open to man with sufficient
capital, more promising than nine
tenths Of the business ventures that
capital is now seeking, and with less
risk.
1t is also more profitable enter
prise to the town than any manufac-
tory we are likely to get. A hotel
with hundred guests would spend
from thousand to fifteen hundred
dollars a week here. Moreover it
would not be entirely summer ho-
tel that would have to be closed up
at the end Of the hot season. There
would be large number Of winter
boarders, among whom would he Il
cons:dera BILE class of students who are
able and always willing to pay good
rates for accommodation when they
are first class.
A Summer Hotel is trump card
for this town. and we would do well
to play it for all it is worth.
Ca Dada No Longer an Asylum.
Having waited long time in vain
for the consent Of our Senate to
treaty securing to the United States
and Canada reciprocal extradition
agreements, the Canadians have de-
cided to give us back our law break
ers whenever VIC ask for them. even
if we are resolved to cling still to
theirs. This decision is forcibly ex-
pressed in the Weldon extradition
bill passed by the Canadian Parlia-
ment on Tuesday. measure which
cannot but be painful reading to
such of our intending criminals as
have been looking to Canada as a
place of refuge from the Indignation
of their victims Criminals already
enjoying and asylum in Canada are
not affected by the new law. The
originator of the measure wished to
make it retroactive on the ground
that it is desirable to purify Canada
Of the legion of boodlers and other
fugitives from justice who have been
infesting it for years. Criminals
who come to us, said Mr.. Weldon.
with hands full Of plumber, having
rendered families destitute, without
any consideration for the orphan or
widow, are entitled to no sympathy.
There might be cases of hardship
under retroi ctive law, but the
interests of morality should not be
sacrificed to protect any one" 1t
was urged, on the other side, that
many fugitives had resided in Cana
da for years, and, having reformed
their evil ways, had become respecta-
Bile and useful citizens. Their ac-
tual character and means were such.
it was held, as to make them an ae-
QUESTION to any community, and to
subject them now to acquisitions on
account of offenses com mitted twenty
or thirty years ago might in many
cases lead to great hardships. The
act as amended is, however. sufIi-
GENTLY broad and comprehensive for
beginning. The list of extradita-
bic crimes includes murder. man.
slaughter, counterfeiting, forgery,
larceny, enlightenment, obtaining
money or valuable securities under
false pretenses, rape, kidnapping,
burglary, arson, robbery, perjury,
piracy, criminal scuttling of vessel,
mutiny, fraud committed by bankers
and officers of municipal and other
corporations, revolt and malicious
acts done with intent to injnre per-
sons in a railway train. The
trusted clerk" and the exemplary
cashier" from and after the issue of
the Governor Generals proclamation
approving the law, will no longer
find it safe to skip with his en-
ployer's assets to the Canadian side
OF the Niagara Falls, or become sud-
denly enamored of the beautiful ice
palaces and winter pageants at
Montreal. The "boodler," too, will
find his lot a less happy one under
the new law, which is carefully pre-
pared with the express object of pre-
venting the introduction Of the
American methods If politics among
the guileless Canucks. Ali classes
of persons inclined to extraditable
offenses will doubtless find in Cana
da's wise legislation an influence ia
vorable to increased rigidity Of moral
Observation-Disclosures Sun.
Good Roads Again.
The Leader has on more than one
occasion of late called attention to
the necessity and economy Of good
country roads, and it knows that
many people, not few of whom are
farmers. have applauded the expires
sions found in these columns CON
corning the efforts that should he
put forth in Duttinp the roads into