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...poll tax scaled like the income tax and amounting to between 60 and 1,500 francs a head. After deliberating for some days, the Committee continued in doubt as to whether it would not be a mere waste of time to send a measure against which so many Deputies were pledged into the Chamber...
...This is the largest straw vote on prohibition ever taken. In 1922 the Literary Digest poll brought out 905,000 votes, of of which 550,000 were for modification or repeal of prohibition...
...largest, conducted by 375 members of the Newspaper Enterprise Association, (and by the New York World) polled some 1,700,000 votes. The voter was given three choices, prohibition as it is, light wines and beers, or repeal of prohibition. Forty-seven states (all except North Dakota) engaged in the poll. In only two states, Kansas and South Carolina, was there a majority for prohibition. Only six others gave pluralities to prohibition. And the total vote was about five to one against prohibition...
...Hearst papers and their allies conducted a similar poll, which brought in upwards of a million votes with similar results. The Chicago Tribune and New York Dally News and their allies also ran a poll, in which more than 300,000 votes were cast, again with similar results...
...vote was light in the South and of course the city vote predominated, further handicapping the Drys, but the poll remains a rather sensational demonstration of wet sentiment, however inconclusive...