New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08

lifting strains pour so naturally and
IN easily from the mouths of the multi
IL tude Englands national anthem has
lsrt its melody to all the nations of the earth
,rbo are of Teutonc stock. No nation ever
has adopted. no nation is likely ever to adopt,
-, +,rc of La Marseillaise." That tune is
'-oro intimately bound up with the poem which
3. ,;.sfe. than are the melody and text of any
other song in the world, secular or religious.
-rt.- fact alone ought to suffice to confute and
.,~f,n,d the critics who have attempted to
,.b tho Freedman Claude Joseph Rouget de
r;se Of the glory of having created both.
They cannot be put asunder. They are one
and jnseparablc, now and forever. They are
, qriverirg heart throb of the French people,
o. rigartic pulse of the exalted passion whose
waves piled high the ramparts of liberty,
,5rov, them down again and anon restored
them. There is no better march whereby the
soldier can measure and time his stride than
;.s music. Its words in the sibylline chant of
q Rachel have proved themselves capable OF
;,tovica+irr an audience without the aid Of
melody or harmony What Heine called the
ereo;a, rage of its large melody has often
leer more devastating than storm, more
r,urderou- than an army. Monster! eX-
claimed Klopstock. addressing its author,
show many thousands Of my countrymen have
vol destroyed" 1t is at once solemn and
sinister. Said Lamartine: Glory and crime
victory and death. are mingled IN It's strains.
When Carlyle wished TO pay supreme tribute
10 Martin Luther's rugged hymn, Elm feste
Rrro isl unser Gott." he called 1t the Mar
sellaise' of the Reformation Through the
,-ciss.tsGes of more than hundred years,
amid changing systems and changing dynas-
-ias F.. has been since it's creation the supreme
rdrical song Of France, country rlch IN
roli.ica- songs of rare strength and beauty.
I, belrad 20 overthrow the House of Bourbon,
and scion Of the house heaped emoluments
and borars upon its creator 1t energlzed
reonles cry for liberty, and the crimes com
nittod ia the name of the liberty which 1t mad
evoked made victims Of its singers. Patriots
have mounted the scafTold and their heads have
fallen into the basket while their waiting com
rades were chanting its strains. No pohtcal
song r the world has a history like 1t; and
hi, well. for there is no political song IN
the world comparable with it,
Tr.re are two names besides those Of Rouget
elise. the author. and Dietrich, the Asatlan
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..-5 t..s 10 tho rod halo Of
-. f.. ho+, wore victims Of the
49,. .......t, ,.o~o committed in the name of
,a.... r......,..... mos. -, native of Narseiles.
and wa. -ont boy his city to the Legislative As
senb'v r 1891. When the revolutionary
movement seemed l'l o"iEei VI Dei"E al
by The h.Hs ana nus parry n"I'"'ooA' ''''''
g1'ea by H'.e' hol''.o' 80 ~ - Gu 9e,'e
me Guy O. ms pI'" loI WV i'e'' VIM
now 70 a'e ihey came olo OIL mem an" VIZ
July ~. l,.-. entered faIlS by tue r"U'oUiE
st. Antoine, singing the song "hich noU long
before dc Isle had written at oOI@9DuiE -
me me spirit OF I'e army anu WIG" '''' '''l'
lao been poPuI"IIE c"Aeo inc 0orE VI wv
'o'o.'.. OIL inc Lowe i'i','I i'' 7'
winch Hao not Eel maze H'U'H ie"o""S "ii.o''7
ue 'o.''''!' "'" "'e" '"''E CT " u"'4"0' SO,
ny me muhl'lp"H'I oI H"i SeIlleS ~ 'P''"
mem o" 'neW way ana Ihe men qW S"|e"'
mourn sang Do all inc way from NarSelIleS
PARIS "m'ner 'heE hao come 80 S"Io Id"
la'Nne' To- o'lh'loa'e inc -\"'lo"". "u"i" I'll
I"'s 'o revive lhe energy ol '"e r""""UiE X
ana To- ne inc advance GuaIu OF lHdJ camp VI