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...object of the ballots which have been sent out is to ascertain first whether student bodies favor present prohibition laws, modification or repeal, and second why individual students vote as they do. Only by collecting the reasons underlying votes can figures be interpreted when it comes to drawing up a report for the Federation. With this in view the Committee has, in sending out its ballots, asked four questions as follows...
...increase in the hated "business turnover tax" from 1.3% to 2%. Said M. Péret: "This is the only imposable tax which will meet the situation." None the less it was recalled that all the political parties in the Chamber pledged themselves to repeal this tax at the last election and have demonstrated time and again that they dare not raise it for fear of their constituents...
...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...
...vote was light in the South, the United Press came to nearly 3,000,000 votes,* of which the proportion was more than five to one for modification or repeal...