The sun., 1916-12-11
ESPERANTO ACQUITTED.


| To THE EDITOR OF THE SCN--Sir.
| did not become unduly detected by
the representations about Esperanto's
gloomy future drawn by Mr.. Albert
Schinz with "A pen dipped In tears.
Esperanto has had a goodly number
OF calamity hoNlers. When, shortly
after Esperanto had reached France.
the Reds started Esperanto clubs and
began to publish an Esperanto news-
paper. the blessed calamity howlers got
on the job with their usual shrek "Es-
peranto ls surely doomed" Result Es-
pcranto is taken UP by the college pro-
fessors. and the proud Sorbonne becomes
the rendezvous Of gay Paris's best wits
and raconteurs. who gather there every
month to crack Jokes and swap stories
In the choicest Esperanto, for they have
found that they can carry on better
in Esperanto than In French.
When the free thinkers and the revo.
lutionists on general principles of Rome
took UP Esperanto. up went that famil-
lar cry. with the result that Pope Leo
XIII. ordered the translation OF the
Four Gospels into Esperanto. and this
| was soon followed by the establishment
, Of two Esperanto catholic papers and
the organization Of the Universal Es-
peranto Catholic Union. which. up 10
the war. held congresses every year, the
| last one. representing seventeen dialects.
having been held shortly before the out
break Of the war In Paris, IN the Ca;ho-
lie University. under the presidency of
the Archbishop OF Paris. when the late
Pope sent his benedict,on.
up when the Republicans in Madrid tool;
up Esperanto. with the same result.
King Alfonso became an arden. Fsps-
iantist, and at the fifth international con-
Eress OF Esperantists. held In Rarcelons
in 1909. the King accepted the honorary
presidency and bestowed upon Or. Zam
enhof. whose ancestors were said to
have been expelled from Spain IN 1892,
the Order OF Elizabeth the Catholic.
Now will take up the charge of Air.
Schinz against the Germans Although
my sentiments are strongly pro-ally ard
! would like to see PruSsian mllitarlsm
destroyed forever. yet candor compcls
me to exonerate the Germans from the
aspcrsons cast upon them by Mr.. Schns.
over the shoulders of the French. as
''s"'h 'i'T ui'c'i"r ""'N'S III ''ie''
Use OF f.spe'anto. HIS argument Is tnat
ever since the Germans understood that
'neE were h't S"'nS 10 win thc war ana
that they could nor impose dermhn as
a Worlu "henagn th'y nave fn'ored
Esperanto as much as they could 10 or
set the pihhS OF inc Aiiies' VINO wore
preparing 10 take UP the famous piah
Of Chapelier," &c
Unless MT. SchinZ VIII assert tnat on
August III. 1914. the Germans already
Understood that tney were not gong 10
WIN the war MS argument iaiis 10 the
ground. Tor No. OF the Esperanto war
bu'Iet'ns pears the ABOVE date. More
over. double sheet. giving resume oi
the happenings since that uh'ortuha'e
ehsode ~ SerayeNo' WAS puniahed
week bctore that nrst humoe'. 80
would seem mat Only week or TWO
at'e? 'he war sn'rted tae Germans ma
S"ea"y p'Su'l I" MAKE preparations I"
s''e ou' 10 'he neutral f"N"ts III Tue
'h'eThS'i"ha' '"hsuas" 'h"'t sac o' '"e
""'"'' u''a'e controversy ana % 'nc Pios-
res "i we war 'h"' 'o'oWed T.
moreover '"r some years pc'orc tHe
var S'"'''" LIE 'erHi"s l'd AL ot'e'
'ou'''''' III ',H' "i''"'a''o'' oi Esps'
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