Would Give Us British Colony.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 17, 1912:
Englishman Suggests a Quid pro Quo for Canal Concession.
Special to The New York Times.
    MOBILE, Sept 16.— Suggestions that the crown colony of British Honduras be annexed by the United States through an arrangement with Great Britain were made here to-day by W. Hargreaves of London.
    Mr. Hargreaves thinks a proper quid pro quo would be the concession to Great Britain of its claims to equal treatment of its ships which use the canal.
    By this means the United States, he says, would be in a position to establish a protectorate over all of Central America, from Mexico to the Isthmian border, and there would be a virtual alliance with Great Britain, which would make so strong a combination that no nations on earth would dare to affront it.
    Mr. Hargreaves says that the United States would lose nothing by making the concession gracefully, as it is certain to lose if the contention now made is brought before The Hague tribunal.
    Mr. Hargreaves thinks the United States must soon establish protectorates over Mexico, and other States, and he feels sure that Great Britain will give full sanction to the policy.