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Show - ,15 m NO HONDURAS PROTECTORATE k' That is a surprising rumor Wn fj comes from the City of Mexico tl LJ (ho administration of our governm! ' is seriously contemplating (ho cstabT -ment of a protectorate over the rej J lie of Iloudu'ras. That sido of thoj p mor is no more surprising, howcr than the other side, which reports h General Miguel R. Davila, president the republic of Honduras, is "in aM eeplivc mood with regard to WasHB ton s proposal. ' ' ;? Inasmuch ns there is no aiithoritylj. the- part of the administration to cs(K? lish protectorates, especially witM -the initiative of Congress, and as"a ri ing has been said in Congress olitjr thing of the kind, (ho rumor raay'A dismissed at once, as idle talk. jj 1 It may be noted here that therj f' a great deal of propaganda among' i Lai in republics on the lino that-v United Stales is alwa3's in an ag sivc and encroaching mood, and isfl S?fi tinually ready to interfere with, f (rol, or absorb one or more of t It is the active prosecution of'li Je ropnganda, this notion that the Uni ST Stales has ils jaws eternally open FJ swallow one or nioro of the Latin ft? publics, that gives currency to sucH M mors as this. Of course there is ni ing in tho world to it, but the 1 effort that inspires such idle talK rv that convej'cd in this report fromj El? City of Mexico, is that there is Hi f' (0 bo any sort, of report that would dicafe interference, greed and medi ' on the part of tho 1'nitcd States1 ! ? this country is in no such moofl .it all such rumors may be dismissed IJ mere idlo fancj', without the least7! ft stance of truth- k n |