The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-04-27

wine
OF ME-und Gott
There's France. she svaggers all
around;
She's ausgespielt. she's no aggound;
To much, we dinks. she don d amound-
MEINSELF-und GOtt.
She will not dare to fight again,
But II she should I'll show her blain
Dat Elsass und in FRENCH Lorraine
Are MEIN-by Gott
Dere's Grandma, dinks she's NIGHT
schmall bier
Nit Beers und such she interfere:
She III learn none owns dis hemisphere
But ME-und Gott
She dinks, good frau, some ships she 5
got.
The soldiers mid der scarlet goat.
Ach We could knock 'em-pOof-like
dot
MEIN NSEbf-unu GOtt.
In dimes OF peace brebare for wars,
| bear der Helm ind shpear Of Mars.
Und care not for den dousand
Czars-
MEINSELF-undG Gott.
In fact, humor every vhim,
Nit aspect dark und visage grim
Gott pull init ME-and l NIT Him
MEINSELF-und Gott.
1--WE WERE READY FOR THEM"
At the Army and Navy Club Satur-
day night Capt. Coghlan's speech was
In part as follows
Il feel inclined only to say few
words this evening. because some one
at Washington took umbrage at what
said last night, and protested against
what said. What did say last night
was true, and what said l will say
again. Great Applause said it
becsuse I felt It,
II am certain we all felt that we
were being nagged at Manila. We
were nearly nagged to death. There Is
such a thing as being nagged too far
and, ,-'em, we were ready for 'em. |
had read a great deal in the newspapers
of what had occurred at various places
in the Philippines. and l thought that
the newspapers had not placed that
grand old man Admiral Dewey, In the
proper light. That is the reason l
thought l was justified in placing him
in the proper light.
MY remarks in the papers were
garbled. will not say they were in
correct in substance or unture, but they
were distorted and twisted 90 as to put
q different meaning in them.
"If anyone will reason q little he
will understand our situation. We
we're ell away from home long ways.
We all showded Admiral Dewey that
we were with him thoroughly and
heartily. We felt that we were being
belittled and nagged until our patience
could stand it no longer.
THE Admiral was man who could
stand it a long time. But when the
moment came he stopped 1t. and they
never moved 9 hair afterwards. (Great
applause
ZONE WORD WOULD HAVE DONE IT."
Stopping a few moments and looking
about at his auditors, Oapt. Ooghlan
raised his hands and placing the palms
close together, said:
IL did think at one time that we
were close to killing them. Great
appause One word, one act, would
have done in.
II would place our Admiral and our
officers in the right light. We were
all able and more than ready to uphold
the honor OF our country and stand by
our Admiral.
mo matter what the difficulty was,
there was no man in the country more
able to meet it than our gallant Ad-
miral. "a voice. Hes Jim Dandy y
You're right, he's Jim Dandy. No
matter what the occasion was or what
the difficulty might be. he always rose
superior to it. In all his work there ne
never made q mistake. We at home
make mistakes in telling about 1t, but
he who was on the spot committed NO
error.
pEwEY's THREAT TO A sPANIARD.
Relating several other incidents,
Capt. Ooghlan said that after the battle
Of Manila he was rather apprehensive
about the conduct Of the Spaniards.
He continued:
AFTER May Admiral Dewey wa
somewhat In fear Of the movements OF
the Spanish. and he told the Spanish
commander III you fire ssingle shot / viii
wipe you of the face Of the earth
(Applause. There never was trigger
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