The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

trail Office men could get there from New
York Weeks fumed and stormed. but it
wasn't any use. He did hiss ''bit'-five
years in Sing Sing-after pleading guilty.
Egypt was favoTite resort for others.
chiefly European soldiers of fortune. But
with Great Britain at the helm no Ameri-
can is now safe under the soft tropic
skies Of Cairo. Tunis and TripoH are
crossed off the list of safe places, too. be-
cause France runs one and Turkey the
other, and both have extradition treaties
Of the iron-clad kind with Uncle Sam.
Algiers is also under French dominion, as
is Madagascar, so, Mr.. Cashier, cut these
of your list when you leave between
days.
In his hasty fight, the gentleman with
the valise full of greenbacks and other
negotiable evidences of wealth, might
thin kthat Borneo. Celebes, Sumatra, and
New Guinea, of any Of the other of the
East hides, would be just the place. Nay,
nay, The Dutch boss Borneo. Celebes.
and Sumatra, and, with the Germans.
divide up New Guinea.
Africa is pretty well divided Up between
France. Great Britain. Germany, and Bel
GUM, so expansion has been a pretty
hard blow for the man who thinks the
United States is an unhealthy place. Cruel
Argentine took over all Patagonia, so one
more place is closed. Denmork owns
Greenland and Iceland. so even these in
hospitable climes turn the cold shoulder
10 the weary traveller with the gold laden
gr1psack.
Japan is also shut to the fugitive, but
Korea is open. China occupies a peculiar
position. The Chinese won't arrest you,
Mr.. Embezzler, but under the law any
American consul may exercise the powers
of policeman, sheriff and magistrate all
in one and throw you into Chinese jail
if he pays your board-till Uncle Sam
sends somebody to bring you home.
There is no extradition treaty with Siam.
but the Siamese would be only too glad
to cast you into dungeon cell if Uncle
Sam asked the favor, for King Chulalong-
korn is anxious TO be friends with the
Americans who entertained SO lavishly
his two sons, the Crown Prince Som
detch Chawfa Maha Fajiravaudh and
Prince Chakrabongse.
This brings up the question of interna-
tional comfy In the old days. when ex-
tradition treaties were less common than
they are now. Uncle Sam would say, You
just arrest and hold my man, and when
you ask me to return the favor. all right"
This was always enoug h In that way
Spain arrested Boss" Tweed without ex-
tradition and turned him over to the
United States.
But now when we seek a favor of a
country with which there is no treaty we
make no stipulaticns. The State Depart
ment some months ago adopted an in
flexible rule to make no promises, for
the very simple reason that should the
President be called upon by a foreign
nation with which we have no extradition
to arrest and hold a criminal he would
find himself UP against a snag-the laws
of the land.
without due process of law" reads
the Constitution of the United States.
prescribing that no man shall be held TO
answer except in due legal form. With
out extradition, in the case of foreigner,
arbitrary arrest and turning over a fugi-
tive to a foreign country with which we
had no treaty would be palpably illegal
and without the Constitution.
However, the world today is a small
place, and is getting smaller every year
for the man who fees arrest in the United
States He is now limited, with one ex-
ception. to Morocco, Siam, Ecuador, Para
quay. UruguSs. Bolivia, the little Central
American republic. Persia, Corea and one
O rtwo semi barbarious lands in Central
Asia. In any of them, bar Central Asia
and. perhaps Morocco. the authorities
might take it into their heads to turn Mr..
Fugitive over to Uncle Sam. just for the
sake Of friendship.
But he's perfectly safe in Cuba, ninety
miles away"