Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1911 — Growth of “Esperanto." [ARTICLE]

Growth of “Esperanto."

The fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Dr. Ludwig Zamenbof was the occasion of many meetings at which the progress of Esperanto was the chief topic. One speaker, before a large audience in London, quoted Prof. Oswald, who declared in 1906 in a lecture delivered at Breslau that there were at that time more than 500,000 people who employed the language. Many improvements have been suggested, but they have not impressed the Esperanto students favorably, and* according to Dr. Foerster, tended simply to confuse people and “to injure) the foundation which has been firmly laid.” The Internacia Sclenca Revuo. which has been published for six years, gives the names of a number of large business concerns of Germany whose annual catalogues are now Issued la the new language.