The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-10
H0CH DER KAISER
SER CASTRO IS SEEKING Poem PEACE, NOT HEALTH
Statement Regarding Poem About Which There Have Been Many Misstate-
 rnents.

There is much confusion in the camps of our contemporaries over the poem, Hoeh der Kaiser, which has again been brought into prominence by tho recent death of Rear Admiral Joseph Bullock Coghlan.
 Soon after coghlan's varshp, the Raleigh, reached New York from Manila the admiral and his officers were the guests of honor at q dinner given by tho Union league. By re- quest at that dinner Coghlan rccitcd poem originally published in the Montreal Herald and written by one of its staff famous Hoch det Kaiser.
 Many of us remember how It set all Germany by the ears and how t required all President Mckinley diplomacy to smooth the rrffled feathers of his majesty, We quote from the New York Herald:
 "rho occasion upon which the poem was written was the Emperor Will Hams speech upon the divine right of kings and his own special mission up- on earth At that time A. NJ. F. Gordon, a Scotchman by birth, and whose real namc was A. McGregor Rose, was a member of the Montreal Herald staff. He had been in the habit of writing verses, and was look : cd upon as a very bright fellow in- deed The city editor turning to him said, Give us q poem, Gordon, on the emperor. In less than an hour he turned out thirteen verses which were entitled by him, Kaiser X Co.,. not Hoch der Kaiser. The matter was sent up to the printer just as it was written and by some mistake the fore man of the composing room only picked up eight verses in type, leaving the other five verses on the galley. The paper wont to press and Gordon. who was very particular about his matter being strictly correct, got one of the first copies off the press. He at once saw the mistake and the form was re-cast, not, however, before a flow hundred had been sent into the maillng room for the foreign mails. Thus the fact that only eight verses wurc copied in the papers that print cd the poem at the time In the sec ond edition 1t was given in full and signed X, M R. Gordon
 \ few months prior to the year l900 Gordon's mind began to fail and lln died shortly after in Notre Dame hospital The poem was written in october, lS97 The text as it was originally written is
 MYSELF IND corr. 1 her Raised auf der Eaterland \ nd Gott on nigh all dings com mand
 ve two, Ach don'd you understand? | Mclnsclf-und Gott'
 lie rcgns in heafen, und always shall | 'nd met own empire dond way small, Fin noble hair, 1 dinks, you call
 Mcinsclf-und Gott, I vin some men sing dor power devine 1 Mine soldiers sing Die Wacht an
 Rhelu
 rnd drink dor health in q Rheinlal
 Of inc md Gott
 pere's France she svaggers al < aroundt,
 i Shes augesplclt. shes no accoundt, 1 To much. we think. she don't amound.
 Meinsclf-und Gott, l Shc Viii not darc 10 fight again 1 Bni f she qhonldt. III show her bla in { Dol Elsass und tin FroncD Lorraine
 Are mcin-by Gott, j Non Bismarck vas man auf mighdt l nd doualli hc vas glean out auf sight i 1iut. aeh, He vas nicht goot to fight
 Mil meund Gott.
 Ne knock hln lto ein man anf straw. i vc iet him know whose will vas law. # md dot VI dond would sdand his jaw,
 Melnself-nud Gott, I Ne gtf lHm insudt to his face, i tnd pnt eiabriHl in his bacc-- Mclnself--und Gott
 End von Gabriv get svelcd headt, I vc vcry hromhtly on him set, l Ind told him 10 get up and get
 Meinself-und cou'
 pcrc's grandma dlnks she is nicht smai Midt Boers upd such sho interfere. I She'n learn none owns dis hemisphere l But mcund Gott. l She dnks, good frau some ships she'' got
 i End soldiers midt der scarlet goat 1 Aeh We eould knock dem, Pouf
 Like dot,
 Molnself-midt Gott ] In dimes of peace brcbare for wars, l ] bear her spear und helm of Mars, l Gnd care not for den tousand ears,
 Mcinsclf-und Gott,
 In fact humor every vhiu Win aspect dark und visagc grim; I Colt pulls nit Me and I nit Him,
 Moinsclf-und Gott,