Show I HONDURAS A few days days' since a dispatch ann announced that Honduras 1 had secured a o loan from a syndicate syndicat in this country and that the syndicate proposed to build railroads pl plant nt large tr tracts in fruit and and sugar cane and the tIle state in many ways The same dispatch mentioned the m multifold resources of that stat state Assuming that th the dispatch is true the natural conclusion is that the syndicate has practically taken chal charge 6 of the state for fOt no American syndicate would advance that that amount and anel take e the chance of Nicaragua or or r Guatemala or vI orSan vISan r San Salvador starting a war var with Honduras Hondula on n some pretext and s swooping v down to confiscate th the property of Americans We suspect that Honduras is practically under r American prote protection lion that there will be an Ame American ican warship or two with plenty of marines marines' practically stationed ned in the Bay By of Fonseca and others on the sea side at 4 Porto lorto Cortes or oL Truxillo or both ports Honduras is the best state in some respects of all the Chic Central American st states tes She ha has fine harbors harbot's har bar bors bots on both sides sides- she has less mosquitoes tha than any ally other tate state she alms h has 8 but two species of poisonous poison poison- ous reptiles and they are not very cry numerous she has bias isome some wonderfully rich lands and the time variety of or products she he can furnish is unequalled 4 she has hasan hasan an open valley all the way war across the state from Porto Cortes to in the Bay of f Fonseca i ion on oil this the est west coast and she has of the people that Spain transported from Porto ill in iii the long ago and they are arc fine workers and amid ar are moreover an nn obedient and nd affectionate tribe That valley across the st state te was found 1 by the terrible Cort Cortez z who ho conquered Mexico i al and d he sought an o opportunity to tb make malie it a chief highway I only only JS 1 miles long long between between the seas It Ii is a i. i wonder th that t it a railroad railroad w was s not built there in th the i flush California days das |