The Mccook Tribune

and Honduras—in fact, in all the Isthmian states—they raise strawberries the year round and practically give them away at from 10 to 15 cents a gallon. Pineapples that would cost 40 and 50 cents in Kansas City and St. Louis go begging there at from 1 to 3 cents apiece. It's the same way with limes, oranges and bananas. They are a drug on the market.

"There are untold millions in the mountains of Central America waiting development of Yankee capital and enterprise. The only reason this work has not been done sooner is that it means death to the average citizen of the United States to live in Central America. The yellow fever and black smallpox are prevalent there until the middle of October. With the building of the canal and railroad, progressive people will see to it that better sanitary conditions obtain in the towns and that the dangers of disease are greatly reduced.

"In the very near future Central America will be the garden spot of this continent. Nothing can stop it when Yankee energy and Yankee systems of sanitation are planted. The Creator made the land all right in the first place, but it happened to fall into unappreciative hands. The canal will relegate the stick plow and the peon and give birth to an era of as remarkable development as was ever seen on this continent."