New-York tribune., 1871-07-28
THE NEW JUBILFE.

Rumcrs have disturbed the air for several
months anent Il Grand Jubilee of Nations
wherewith Boston expects in 1872 to dwarf
the glories of the famous festival OF 1859.
We predicted, when that crashing celebration
came to a close, that its protector would
never rest easy and Boston would never be
quiet until another had been given, ut least
as big again as the first. Only two years
have passed, and already Mr. Gilmore steps
forward with his new programme and invites
us to become enthusiastic. His scheme is
even grander than we anticipated. We will
not say that it is too grand to be carried out,
for the experience of 1869 has convinced us
that Mr.. Gilmore can carry out anything.
Considering all the circumstances, be had
much more difficult task to accomplish in
collecting 10000 singers in the old Coliseum
than he is likely to encounter in
mastering 10000 choristers and 1000
players and 100000 listeners in the great
pine-plank temple which he purposes dedi-
eating next Summer to the Goddess of Peace
and the Treaty of Washington. People be-
lieve in him now Boston is ready to guaran-
tee the money, and the whole country is eager
to furnish the singers. We publish to-day
Mr.. GilmOre's Prospectus-an invigOrating,
though red-hOt, document, which is perhaps
not quite full in the explanation OF details,
but at least indicates the frame of mind i'll
which we ought to approach the contempla-
ton of this gigantic enterprise. 1t was OBJ
jected to the first jubilee that if it was peace
celebration it was about four years too late.
He must have been base and grOveling
wretch who could stand in the midst of that
Al, 1 =
was all good for; but even the meanest Of
cavilers will have no excuse to cavil this time.
The triumph of peace now is q brand-new one.
France and Germany have had ont their little
quarrel. The last revolution in Paris is at an
end. The Communists have put away their
petroleum bombs and are going off quietly
to Cayenne, or New Caledonia, or some other
paradise beyond the sea. The Alabama Claims
are to be paid, and Gen. Butler has recalled
his threat of going to war on the Fisheries
question. So what more proper than that we
should put out of mind the Battle of DOrkng
and HeliOgoand, and Wilhelmshaven, and sing
" Peace on Earth" with all the force of twenty
thousand pairs of lungs2 What more proper
either than that the spot in which all mankind
are to come together for this mighty rejoicing
should be the city which alike by its geo
graphical situation, its moral eminencc, its
countless physical advantages, and its dazzling
architectural glores, has earned the title of
the Hub of the Universel The patri otic cti-
zens of Boston who pledged their fortunes
and their sacred honor to secure the first jubi-
bilee against possible pecuniary deficiency,
stand ready to back up the second in an
equally practical manner The foreign minis
ters in Washington, with whom Mr.. Gilmore
has discussed the scheme of borrowing a speci-
men military band from each of the great
powers of Europe, are confident of the CO.
operation of their respective governments.
The steamship companies are not averse to
liberal arrangements for transportation and
in few days Mr.. Gilmore is going to Europe
to put the thing fairly to the Kaiser, and the
Car, and Queen Victoria, and NJ. Theirs, and
King AmadeO, and we know not how many
other great personages, including, we trust
the Sultan and the Pope. If all go well (and
we see no reason to expect Otherwise) the
great international Jubilee of Peace will open
on the 18th of next June, the anniversary of
the Battle Of Bunker Hill, and close on the
Fourth of July. Whether festival of such
huge dimensions can ever be of much inn
portance from severely artistic point of
view, is a question we need not consider We
must judge it on other grounds. The Jubilee
of 1869, whatever its defects of purely mus-
cal character, was a popular success of the
most unmistakable kind. 1t answered all the
requirements of American taste. Nothing I'M
presses the popular Imagination in this coun-
try 80 much as the gigantic. Our relish for
anything big, which is reflected even in the
extravaganza of American eloquence and the
exaggcrations of American humor, found in
this enormous concOulso Of swelling voices.
and crashing bands, and rafting mvils, and
boOmin. cannon. its perfect satisfaction. What