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Show PLACES OF REFUGE. Eight deserters from the United Slates army have been discovered at Juarez, just across the Kio Grande river from El Paso, and the military authori-rie? authori-rie? at Fort Bliss are endeavoring to lay hands on the cowardly miscreants. The effort will probably fail, for it hat, been the custom from time immemorial for one nation to shelter deserters from the army of another and to protect conspirators. con-spirators. London has harbored nihilists, nihil-ists, anarchists and all kinds of foreign desperadoes for generations under the plea that they were political refugees and victims of persecution. Of late years New York has become a haven of refuge for such undesirables. Nikolai Lenine. whose treachery will cost the United States billions of dollars and thousands of lives, was allowed to enter this country and take up his residence in New York, where he secretly plotted The overthrow of all governments and ;he established order of thing?. Many men and women of the same stripe still reside in the United States. The theory of former ages was that a revolutionist was always a patriot and entitled to protection if he escaped from his home country. But the fact that he could be used to advantage by the nation na-tion granting him immunity from extradition ex-tradition was also considered. In fu-turo fu-turo we do not believe that any su-di excuses will obtain and that eery an archit will be promptly returned to his own country to a n swer for whatever crimes he may have committed, and we iiope deserters will be included. Two or three years ago when Great Britain was trying to raise a great volunteer army it was found that there were thousands of low-class foreigners in London who coubl not be induced to enlist and who could not be conscripted in ca?e a. draft law was passed. A a result all of the non-producers beloupiiig to this element were deported. By this aet the authorities effected a great ?av-ing ?av-ing in food and at the same time purified puri-fied London to some extent. Some Americans were caught in the draenct and sent home, where preying jpon the public is nuM'h easier than in Kurope at the p-rcrer,t time, .bwt now there is a shortage- of labor in the United States and w should not allow uon -producing foreigners to cat v hen 'hey do not earn. Moreover, cverv idle man among them certain to be a. ron--pirator. This is abo true of some of those who worj-: rw-ry day. but the mjs-piion mjs-piion against them is not so Mrong and their labor is productive of sonic goo-1 to the count ry. Be fore this time next year there wi'l bo a how down in the i'nited States and every a'de-hoilied man who is not in th militarv service will be compelled to work, editors of foreign la nguaee new - pu prr i n abided. jf bating an army together in the United i States is slow and cpendv work, but ! now that we have entered upon the tnk 'all its wants muM be supplied and the ! men kept in the field until our object-' 1 arc Accomplished. ( n fortn nat el v there a re a few men who have joi ned the colors v. ho ar unworthy of t hrt t rn:t repoied in thern and to this cbiss the eight deserters found in .luare, belong. The penalty for the crime of desertion in iiuic of war is death, and it. is to be hoped t he ;'ort III i- ( ant horit ie will cat eh the.,. p'-omi'lreW and make nn exam ex-am pie of I hem. Yet we do not. expect tho Mexican officii Pi (( gi vo them up, for Ihe- Uniled State- has not been in the habit of ret ii r ii i nt; de-no t ei upon demand of foreign ronrdrien and, in Tact, few if any Mi h demands are made, for n fb-: erter once across tlm border has abno.'t invariably been held In bo entitled en-titled to h i free ib, in. There n re thou cnids of men in this country who fled fiom (ii-rinany in order lo cm ape service in the army and nol a fw who deycited alter beine compelled to jnin tho (dors. |
