The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

|. are crossed off the list of safe places, too. because France runs one and Turkey they other, and both have extradition treaties of the iron-clad kind with Uncle Sam. Algiers is also under French do- minion, as is Madagascar. so. Mr. Cashier, cut these off your list when you leave between days.
 In his nasty flight, the gentleman with the valise full of greenbacks and other negotiable evidences of wealth. might think that Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra and New Guinea, or any of the other. of the East Indies, would be just the place. Nay, nayi The Dutch boss Borneo. Cell ebea,f and Sumatras afd. with the 9er- mans. divide up New Guinea.
 Africa is pretty well divided up between France. Great Britain, Germany and Bell gium, so expansion has been pretty hard blow for the man who thinks the United States is. an unhealthy piace. Cruel Argentine took over ali Patagonia. so one more place is closed. Denmark owns Greenland sand sIrslhnd. so even these inhospitable climes turn the cola shoulder to thg weary, uayeter with tho gold laden grirshck-k l~9&kN
 Japan is afso shut to the fugitive, buf Korea is open. China occupies peculiar position. The Chinese won't arrest you, MT. Emzbezier, but. under the law any American consul may exercise the pow CTS of policeman, sheriff and magistrate all in one, and throw you into a Chinese jafl-if he pays your Board-till Uncle Sam sends somebody to bring you home.
 There is estrHuftfon treaty with SiamAbut the Siamese would be only too glad to cast. youaEh dungeon cell if Uncle Sam asked the favor, for King Chulalongkorn is anxious to be friends with the Americans, who entertained so lavishly his two sons the Grown Prince Sombetch Crowfa Mana VajiravSudf and Prince Chakrabongse
 sThls brings up the question of internar tional comlty 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 fa- vor. all right" This was always enough. In that way Spain arrested Boss" Tweed without extradition 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 stipulations. The State Depart ment some months ago adopted an in-. flexible rule to make no promise, for the very simple reason that should the Pres- ident be called upon by 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 formA With out extraditIon. in. the case Of foreign CT, arbitrary arrest and turning over fugitive to a foreign country with which we had no treaty would be palpably H. legal and without the Constitution. fs6
 However. the world today is Q. small place, and is getting smaller every year for the man who fees arrest in the United States. He is now limited, with one exception, to Morocco Siam, Ec- quador Paraguay. Uruguay. Bolivia, the little Central American republic. Persia, Corea, and one or two semi-barbarous lands In Central Asia. Tn any of them. bar Central Asia and perhaps Morocco. the authorities might take it into their heads to turn MT. Fugitive over to Uncle sam, just for friendships sake.
 But he's perfectly safe in Cuba, ninety miles away lFs