Saturday, Apr. 21, 1923
Straw Votes
Result of a poll of the National Council of the National Economic League: 1) Should the United States enter the League of Nations with such reservations as may be acceptable to the Government of the United States? Yes--890. No--327. 2) Should the United States join in supporting the World Court? Yes--1,173. No--51. 3) Should the United States promote the holding of an international economic conference ? Yes--937. No--237. 4) Scale down the war debts owed to the U. S. ? Yes--625. No-- 477. 5) Is France justified in the Ruhr? Yes--713. No--326. These are the opinions of distinguished lawyers, bankers, educators, etc., and are not taken as representative of popular feeling. " Uncle Sam's Voters" headed by Ira Nelson Morris, ex-Chicago packer and recent U. S. Minister to Sweden--is the latest effort to rouse the American people from their apathy toward national affairs.