Tial ni eldonas tiun ĉi malgrandan organon kaj korege invitas ĉiujn, kiuj partoprenas tiujn ĉi fidojn kaj idealojn, informiĝi pri tiu ĉi Esperantista movado kaj vidi por si ĉu ne estus bone ke ankaŭ ili aliĝus al Esperantistaro.
Laŭvorte tradukita de la Redaktoro.
ESPERANTO.
The first word in the first article of the first number of this Periodical is suggestive. Esperanto! Hope is the Keynote of the whole movement. We hope, therefore we are moving. It is because we hope we publish this paper, we form Esperantist circles and we do all that we can to push a knowledge of Esperanto throughout the world.
Esperantists have no use for pessimists. To Giant Despair Esperanto is a sealed book. And Hope, like its sister grace Faith, looks to the future, laughs at impossibilities and says "It shall be done."
Yet, although Esperanto has its roots in the Christian Graces and its ideal can only be attained in the far future, it is one of the simplest and most obviously necessary things in the world. So simple is it and so necessary that we marvel that mankind should have but now discovered it. It is however impossible any longer to delay its introduction as an indispensable instrument of human intercourse.
The nineteenth century, by facilitating travel, made the invention of a key language a necessity. The twentieth century must make its adoption Universal.
Until a lingua franca or universally accepted key language has been adopted by all nations, the increase of international intercourse is an increase of trouble, of irritation and misunderstanding.
Various attempts have been made to supply such a medium. One by one they have dwindled away until now Esperanto holds the field!
It is conceivable that, in the course of the ages, the wisdom of mankind might invent some language more ideally perfect than Esperanto, but we cannot afford to wait. We want a key language and we want it now. And as by general agreement of all the most competent authorities, Esperanto is the best key language yet invented, as there is no question that it is by far the most widely spread and generally understood, we invite all English-speaking men and women to master Esperanto.