The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1924, Page 3

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1924 : THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE . emt {5 MILLION SECRET BALLOTS (The First 107,145 Votes. Are Tabulated in This Week's Literary, Digest) A \ ? r e o | MELLON PLAN? , MELLON PLAN? | ea + THE LITERARY DIGEST, with the absolute impartiality which is now universally recognized as its: a unvarying policy, is mailing individual secret ballots to nearly 15 million men and women voters throughout the United States, that the desires and opinions of the people on this great { a . é issue may be known beyond question. EVERY VOTE IS THE FREE, UNINFLUENCED, SECRET VERDICT OF 3 3 THE VOTER, UNKNOWN TO ANYONE BUT HIMSELF OR HERSELF 4 a HE DEMAND FOR TAX REDUCTION is the paramount issue before dentists. engineers, educators, architects, musicians, etc., in short, all parties and = the country to-day, The only question in dispute is how to secure the all the classes of men and women who make up the voting population in all reduction. Many plans have been proposed by various political groups or parts of the country. > leaders, but attention has become focused upon aan alla Metpn Plan. NO PROPAGANDA OF ANY KIND is connected with this great National The Mellon Plan reduces the taxes on all incomes in vatying degrees; it Poll cf the American people. The Literary Digest is always strictly non- provides that an earned income (salary, wages, professional services, etc.) shall partizan and impartial on all controversial questions. it records the facts and not be taxed as highly as an income from stocks, bends, etc. The so-called the opinions of all political parties and all classes. That is why it has come to 4 nuisance taxes, such as the moving-picture..admission tax, the telephone tax be regarded by millions of Americans as the one representative and indispensable and the telegraph tax, also are eliminated. periodical record of all phases of American life. . This measure, however, is not without .strong opposition. An important fault HERE IS A COPY OF THE SECRET BALLOT , with thé plan, according to such leaders as William G. McAdoo, ex-Secretary (This copy is printed here for information only, and will not be accepted in the voti Sh of the Treasury, and Commander John R. Quinn of The American Legion, is ——— : will not be; sccepted:s) the ome) y that it excludes the soldiers’ bonus, which /they strongly believe should be i paid, and which they claim can be.paid without preventing some tax reduction. f On the other hand Secretary Melloh says it will be impossible to reduce taxes q . ‘in this generation if we pay a bonus. President Coolidge also disapproves of a Ds. ue an a bonus-in fact and principle,.and has given unqualified support to the Mellon Plan. ; ridin gree “ae y DO' YOU FAVOR THE MELLON PLAN FOR TAX REDUCTION OR 2 . F NOT? Mark your ‘Ballot and support _your ‘views. : ALL CLASSES OF VOTERS in all States and all communities in the Nation * 4 are being polled with complete impartiality. They include business mien, mer- ) chants, farmers, manufacturers, railroad employees, bankers, clerks, builders, q h contractors, superintendents, managers, carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, painters, 5 } mechanics, printers, miners, steel-workers, workers in every trade and branch 4 of industry, hoth union and non-union, professional men and women’ of all = ; , , classes, including lawyers, doctors, clergymen, authors, actors, newspaper men, Ream oe i a The results will appear in THE. LITERARY ‘DIGEST. All the figures will-be given in lems and issues which: are being discussed and which: must: be:settled by the American people * etait and will be analyzed and ‘explained, State. by State, until the poll is completed. The: . in this great Presidential‘ Campaign. THE LITERARY DIGEST is wonderfully equipped: for ‘. A > Grst- announcement will be in the February 2d issue. These.reports-will have ynique and ‘this service by a system-built up at great expense through many years of careful work, and } Gecisive interest for political leaders, the press, afd citizens of the whele country. DIGEST Teaching inta thousands of newspaper and periodical offices.in all parts of the world. The , readers, of course, will get them first and in the-most-complete-detail. .- i reader can depend upon THE LITERARY DIGEST with absolute certainty as it reveals, from At the same time, and all through the year, THE LITERARY DIGEST will be gathering ‘week to week, free from all prejudice and partizanship, the real state of the Nation's mind, the \ f - easefully and reporting all the facts and opinions on all sides bearing upon all the great prob- real facts affecting a)l issues, and the progress of all the great problems toward settlement. . oN ES \. é — ; ~ ¥we CET THE _é¢) FEBRUARY 2d ISSUE NOW he /om ON, NEWS-STANDS = © i FIRST RETURNS OF THE GREAT POLL . FEBRUARY 2d ISSUE | ‘