Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-09
WAR TO END ONLY
BY BEATING GERMANY
Wilson Says Autocracyl Must Yield
To Democracy's Ideals.
DEGREES EARLY PEACE TALK
u. S. Destroyer By Error Fires On An
Italian Submarine May Use
Neutral Tonnage.

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lied League for National Unity, who
were received at the White House
yesterday afternoon by President
Wilson.
The President gave his Endorsement
to the purposes of the league in an adj
dress emphasizing the need of team
play by the forces of American
thought and opinion. He expressed
the belief that American public opin-
ion. although understanding the wars
causes and principles, needed guild
ance TO remember that the war should
end only when Germany was beaten
and Germanys rule of autocracy and
might superseded by the ideals of
! democracy.
This is the issue which the Amer
lean people should always keep in
mind, the President said, in order TO
avoid being misled into byways. of
thought and the resultant scattering
of the force of public opinion. Talk
of early peace before Germany is de-
feated is one of the evidences of mis-
directed thought, he suggested, and
should not cloud the vision of those
who understand that the United
| States is fighting now for the same
ideals of democracy and freedom that
have always actuated the nation.
The President gave warning that it
should not be forgotten that German
success would mean not only proven
ton of the spread of democracy, but
possibly the suppression of that al
ready existing
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, SEN
| ior prelate of the Roman Catholic
Church in the United States, and
Frank Mason North of the Federal
Council of the Churches Of Christ in
America, are Honorary Chairmen of
the organization, and it's list of Off
GERS includes men of prominence in
organized labor, industry and finance.
May Repeal Tax inequalities.
Members of the Senate Finance
Committee are studying the effect of
Objectionable features of the new
Revenue Act, with the purpose of Of
fering amendments for the repeal of
those provisions which impose dou-
Bile taxation and are regarded as car
rying injustice to certain individuals.
Senator Penrose, ranking Republican
members of the committee, who is OPP
pose to these features, declared that
he would offer amendments to the
present act at the next session.
Two of the features which Mr.. PEN
rose will seek to eliminate will be the
double tax on professional men and
small tradespeople-the s per cent
tax on their incomes-and the zone
tax on advertising in newspapers and
magazines. Mr.. Penrose holds that
| the tax on second-class matter should
| be increased over the one-cent-per-
pound rate, but only after a scientific
|. investigation by the Post Office Com
mittee Therefore he will offer bill
at the next session to provide for such
an investigation, with the idea of hav-
/ ing the Post Office Committee report
bill dealing justly with the news
papers and magazines.
| Fires On Italian U-BOat.
| One of those unfortunate incidents
| that sometimes occur through cases
! of mistaken identity in naval warfare
was announced by the Navy Depart
ment last night when it issued a brief
| bulletin to the effect that an Ameri-
can war vessel had fired upon an
Italian submarine, killing one Italian
officer and an Italian enlisted sailor.
| When, where, and full details as to
how it happened were not disclosed
| by the Navy Department, but the fact
|. that American destroyers are known
to have been sent to the Mediterranean
to cooperate with the Italian and
other Entente vessels engaged in the
quest for the German submarine, and
the understanding that Italian sub
marines have not been operating out
side the Mediterranean inspired the
belief that the incident took place
somewhere in that sea. or perhaps in
the Adriatic
The fact that an officer and an en-
listed man were killed indicates that
the American guuners landed shot
in the submarines coming tower, the
victims being the officer at the peri
scope and the bluejacket at the
wheel
Secretary Daniels has sent to the
Italian Minister of Marine a telegram
expressing the sincerest regret that
the submarine, belonging to the navy
of a nation with which this govern
ment is on terms of closest friend
ship, should have been the victim Of
such a case of mistaken identity.
The explained cause of the affair is
that the submarine failed to answer
the established recognition signals,
and was therefore mistaken for a
German submarine until its identity
was established.
May Use Neutral Tonnage.
The Exports Administrative Board
is said to have decided not to grant a
license for the release of the Dutch
ship Nieuw Amsterdam, now in an At
lantic port loaded with foods for the
Committee for the Relief of Belgium,
as no assurances have been given
that the vessel would return to the
jurisdiction of the United States.
Negotiations have been going on for
several days, but the Administrative
Board has remained firm in the posi-
ton taken, and it is reported on ex-
cellent authority that the same policy
will apply TO all of the neutral ships,
aggregating more than 100000 tons,
which are now tied up in American
ports.
rr,,is means that the neutral ton