The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-11-10
ESPERANTO HIS
no rivals now
An Interesting Account of
What 1t is and of
Its History.


Esperanto Is an artificial languages
( devised by Louis L zahenhof. a Jew
/ fish aculist Of Warsaw. Poland. It's
aim. as set forth In the inventors pre-
face TO his first book. 10 TO be q Sec
ond laIguaEe to be learned alongside
the mother tongue, for use among
peoples Of differing speech.
Appearing in the year 1887. Il met
with little success for ten years. Then
under the patronage OF Marquis Louis
de Beaufront, It took serious hold on
France, spreading thence to every
nation of the globe. There are to-
day in the world at least IL 700. 900
Esperantlsts, OF whom 10000 have
registered in DR.. ZamenhofG Address
Book There are 1000 Organized so-
cieties officially registered. Sixty
journals in or about the language are
published In every corner OF the
earth. including Peru. Roumaniatl
Brazil. Algiers, Madagascar, Japan.
Bohemia and Chill. and on such sub
socialism, pasifsm. humor, commerce
literature, Christian Endeavor and
teaching. More than 2.000 books
have appeared In the language. with
transla lions from Shakespeare, Gothic,
Schiller, Moliere, theN BThiSi, and sci6n-l
tiff works. besides not few Import
ant original productions. The inter-
national language is officially recog-
nIzed by the London Climber OF
Commerce, the French Touring Club.
College de France, the International
Peace Congress, the United Societies
of Christian Endeavor. and the indie
pendent Order of Good Templars.
Four International Esperanto con-
crosses have been held TO date. sue
cessively in France. Switzerland
England and Germany. Each OF
these gatherings lasts week and all
= a. II
the Language, questions Of interna-|
tional interest, and sectional meet
igns for the furtherance of every
1 branch of human activfty)-fs con-
Quoted in Esperanto. At the last
congress. held in Dresden. Germany.
1900 delegates represented IS coun-
tries of the world. The United
States Government was officially rep
resented by SurBeon-Major B. f..
Straub. of Washington. One OF the
many Interesting features Of this con-
gress was play rendered in Es-
peranto. its eleven characters being
represented by persons of eleven diff
ing played by a New York actress.
The next World Congress of Esper-
anto will be held next August at
Chautauqua, N. Y. under the auspic-
.es of the Chautauqua Institution,
whose curriculum now includes the
y
The permanence OF Esperanto Is
assured by the following consIdera-
tons:
I. An International language IS
needed To discuss this point would
be to insult the Intelligence OF the.
reader.
II. An International language is
possible. Its possibility and advant-
age have been demonstrated by the
congresses referred to above
III. Common sense guarantees,
and history demonstrates. that that
will some day be completely estab-
Iished.
". No national Language fills the
bill. T5nglish spoken by only 1907
100000 against a world population
of billion and a half is not univer-
sal Every other national tongue is
less 50. International rivalry abso-I
Iutely precludes the consideration Of
any natural tongue for the. interena-
tionaI role. The only practical solu-
ton of the problem lies in the adop-
ton of an artificial Language. which
oftends no one eand has certain adj
vantagcs of its own. These advnnt-I
ages are (1) east of acquIrement (Es-
peranto may be learned in three
months), (2) a more scientific med
Ium-for being international-I In char
acter, It answers better to .interna-
tional needs, than national tongue
that is designed to servo a single
race.
V. Esperanto can have no artInc-
ial rivals, 1t has none at present,
though there have been no less than
900 attempts in the last 500 years
to introduce an international auxil-
iary Language. Now that Esperanto
has thoroughly entrenched itself in
practice. the very idea of IntrnatIon-
al language declares that there shall
be but one such. and that further
changes shall be introduced gradually
Into the particular language that hasI
captured the field.
These principles being bedrock.
we can readily see that Esperanto Is
simply an historical institution, just
as the alphabet or printing.
Amy information concerning the in
ternationaI language viii be cheer
fully furnished Con receipt of post
age) by the West Virginia Esperan-
to Association. Secretary, Herbert NJ.
Scott. 1912 Purdy Ave. Moundsville.
w. Va.