Journalist Expected Esperanto to End War

Teach your army Esperanto, and
they will be happy with simple uniforms.

Zamenhof’s very dream for Esperanto was that by improving communication between people of different native languages, it could reduce conflict in the world. Zamenhof wasn’t alone in that dream, and many of the people who hoped, at the beginning of the twentieth century, to end war forever believed that an international language would be instrumental in achieving this.

One publication that advocated this idea was the Westminster Reivew, a liberal publication that ran from 1823 to 1914. It was founded by the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham,[1] and the people listed on the Wikipedia page about it are a mini Who’s Who of nineteenth and early twentieth century British thought. Unfortunately, A. H. Weller, who is quoted in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser of September 23, 1907 is not one of the illustrious crowd who founded the Westminster Review, but a later, and more obscure individual. I have found little about him,[2] other than that he wrote other pieces on the danger of militarism for the Review.

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