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ON THE TWO RED-HOT QUESTIONS
THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, . JULY 8, 1923
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PROfflESTION
Enforcement?
Modification?
Repeal?
AND THE
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For All Soldiers and Sailors
Who Wore the Uniform
During the World War?
The 'Literary Digest, in a Nation-Wide Poll, Has Mailed Individual Secret Ballots to More Than
TEN MILLION VOTERS Asking Them Whether They Favor a DRY, MOISTV or
WET Policy, and Whether They Are FOR or AGAINST the BONUS
OF TH
eeia
tion
E REAL WILL OF THE PEOPLE
Which Will Point, in Advance of Election, to the Defeat or Victory of Many Candidates
INDIVIDUAL SECRET BALLOTS have been mailed to more than TEN MIL
LION MEN AND WOMEN VOTERS throughout the United States. Every vote
cast will express the free, uninfluenced, secret preference of the voter, unknown to anyone
but himself or "herself. Every voter who receives one of these ballots is urged to mark and
mail it at once. Whichever policy on Prohibition and the Soldiers' Bonus you favor, be sure to
back H nu) by your vote, because your vote will help to strengthen your side in determining the
final policy.
ALL CLASSES OF VOTERS in all States and all communities in the Nation are being
polled with complete impartiality. They include business men, merchants, farmers, manufac
turers, railroad employees, bankers, clerks, builders, contractors, superintendents, managers, car
penters, plasterers, plumbers, painters, mechanics, printers, miners, steel workers, workers in every
trade and branch of industry t both union and non-union, professional men and women of all
classes, including lawyers, doctors, clergymen, authors, actors, newspaper men, dentists, engi
neers, educators, architects, musicians, etc., in short, all the classes of men and wpmen who
make up the voting population in all parts of the country.
NO PROPAGANDA OF ANY KIND is connected with this great national poll of the
American people. The Literary Digest, is always strictly non-partizan and impartial on all
controversial questions. It records the facts and the opinions of all parties and all classes. That
is why it has come to be regarded by millions of Americans as the one representative and indis
pensable periodical record of all phases of American life.
HERE IS A COPY OF THE SECREXBALLOT
(This copy is printed here for information only, and will not be accepted in the votirfg)
Secret Ballot on Prohibition and Soldiers' Bonus
No Signature No Condition No Obligation Mark and Mail at Once
PROHIBITION (Put cross (x) in the square only opposite the policy you favor.)
Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Law? jJ
2. Do you favor a modification of the Volstead Law to permit pi
light wines and beers ? . , -
3. Do you favor a' repeal of the Prohibition Amendment? D
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SOLDIERS' BONUS:
(Put a cross (x) in the square under "Yes" or "No")
D8 you favor a Federal Bonus for all American Soldiers and YES so
' Sailors who wore the Uniform during the World War? O O
It Is Important to Mark and Return This Ballot Immediately
MILLIONS OF CITIZENS are discussing these two questions with intense feeling. Both
questions have a personal interest to every man and woman and child in the United States,
and will be controlling factors in the coming Congressional elections in many States. This Nation-wide
poll, now being taken by THE LITERARY DIGEST, will reveal, in advance
of the election, how the majority of the citizens stand on these questions. The result is every
where eagedy awaited. -
Every Week From
The results will appear in THE LITERARY DIGEST. All the figures 'will be given in
detail and will be analyzed and explained, State by State, until the poll is completed. The first
announcement will be in the. July 8th issue. These reports will have unique and decisive in
terest for political leaders, the press,, and citizens of the whole country. DIGEST readers, of
course, will get them first and in the most complete details.
At the same time, and all through the year, THE LITERARY DIGEST will be gathering'
carefully and reporting all the facts and opinions on all sides bearing upon all the great prob-
Every
State in the Union
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lerns and issues which are being discust and which must be settled by the American people.
THE LITERARY DIGEST is wonderfully equipped for this service by a system built up
at great expense through many years of careful work, and reaching into thousands of news-
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JTERARY DIGEST with absolute certainty as it reveals, from week to week, free from
all prejudice and partizanship, the real state of the Nation's mind, the real facts affecting all
issues, and the progress of all the great problems toward settlement.
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