A Western inventor is endeavoring to
interest capital in his electrical magic
lantern for costing or reflecting advertise
ments on the dark clouds that often hang
low over a city. The inventor claims to
have secured contracts from several well
known firms for displaying their cards in
this manner. If the idea is fully develop
ed we may expect to see some very start
ling and grotesque effects.
Li I Tie action of the special House com
mittee of the Silcott theft gives ominous
indication of a tendency to evade responsi
bility and, if possible, find some means of
reimbursing the defrauded Representa
tives from the public treasury. Such a
course should net lie considered for a mo
ment. Those who favor it should read the
history of those who wore. responsible for
tln> (alary grab and learn wisdom. To
take one cent of the people’s money to
make up for private losses made possible
by the slovenly business methods of its
members would be nothing but bare theft,
and its iniquity would lie remembered
against even participant.
There seems a prospect that the United
States may conclude an extradition treaty
with England much broader than that
now in force, which will cut off the use of
Canada or our own country as an asylum
for embezzlers or others of that ilk who,
committing a crime in one country, seek
refuge in the other. The responsibility
for the fact that such an agreement was
not reached long since, rests principally
with the United States, the Canadians
having agu'n and again'shown their will
ingness to meet us more than half way
most recently in the Weldon act. The
substitution of legislative measures for
treaty agreements in such ciisci is always
unsatisfactory.
