The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-15
NEW HAVEN MORNING

Her Britannia Majesty's Consul or in- suit to the Union Jack! Any of these
 things are possible. And it would be just like Spain to bubble diplomatical-
 ly about amends and apologies, with the desperate hope of enlisting France on her side. And so John Bull, who is not in the habit of pocketing affronts
 and turning the other cheek to the
 smiter, may be driven to take hand
 in the game of war. If so, goodby to
 the Spanish flag in the Canaries.
 What splendid prize for Uncle Sam or our sturdy old friend If the islands fall to our possession we might trade
 them off with him, say, for the Baha-
 mas, which are handler for us. Or we
 might present them to him. They are just what the dear old boy is so fond of picking up all over the whole globe. Nature has placed them there for coal bins exactly in the track of his enor- nous commerce with Africa, New Zealand and his West India colonies.
 The miserable shiftlessness of the Spaniards has left their great potential
 resources but half developed. Since the collapse of the cochineal industry owing to the discovery of aniline dyes, nothing has been introduced to take its place. English capital, under the | protection of the English flag, would | exploit all the latent values of the | Canaries and add much to the world s wealth and happiness. All of the prof | itable products of the sub-tropics, as we'll as of more temperate regions, can | be grown easily and cheaply. And then, as sanitarium and playground of the | kind that J. B. so dearly loves for a refuge from his snow, rain, fog and | hard work, they cannot be beaten any l where. You can have any climate you want by trying different heights.
 In roadmaking, at least, the Span | iards are not degenerate scions of the old Latin stock The roads between the principal points of Teneriffe are | perfectly macadamized wide enough
 most of the way for three or four car | riages abreast and wind on and up with easy grades. For the dead of win | ter there is always Santa Cruz or the south side, hasl6ing in the sun and | never co warm for free outdoor life with comfort For the spring. summer | and fall there is Orotava, with it's en- 1 trancing vale, preferred by many wis., | itors to Santa Cruz itself as a winter
 residence by reason of its northerly
 exposure and bracing sea breezes. Icod, Laguna, Tacorante and Guimar
 are pitched at various attitudes to suit, l with specialties of climate and other
 attractions. These are all on Teneriffe. The other islands have their share of
 bonny places, too, needing only a few more fine hotels to make them all that the most exacting tourist could wish
 The diversified scenery is truly pict-
 uresque and satisfying in it's land-
 scape effects and water views. And if
 there were nothing else to see but the
 stupendous, played-out volcano, twelve | thousand feet high, snow-capped, that
 alone would repay q visit to the Can- aries.
 The transfer of these islands to the
 man who can make better use of them
 than the Spaniard and restore to them
 in truth the ancient name of Forum ate is a possible outcome of the war
 Uncle Sam or John Bull-which shall it be?-From the Boston Transcript.