And so the _Literary Digest_ evidently thought. For it continued to publish returns as they came flooding into the editorial office. Innumerable letters accompanied the votes. People from all sections of the country “spoke out in meeting,” advocating Government control of the liquor traffic. From Omaha and New Jersey this advice came, and from practically every State of the Union. The people were being heard from. The second hundred-thousand voted as follows: For strict enforcement 76,597 For modification 85,151 For repeal 45,646 A poll was taken in many factories where both men and women are employed. In the Edison works in New Jersey, the poll was taken under the supervision of Charles A. Edison, “who saw to it that the ballots were distributed one to each worker. They were marked secretly, and deposited by the individual workers in sealed ballot boxes, later opened by representatives of the _Digest_. The result shows a proportion of slightly more than twenty to one against the continuation and enforcement of the present liquor laws.” This is the vote: For enforcement 93 For modification 976 For repeal 966 A careful poll of the establishment of Parke, Davis & Company, manufacturing chemists, of Detroit, revealed the following results: For enforcement 218 For modification 1,081 For repeal 211 Combining these two polls, the attitude of the workers in two representative factories would be summarized as follows: For enforcement 311 For modification 2,059 For repeal 1,177 In connection with factories and labor, one inevitably thinks of Samuel Gompers. The _Digest_ asked him for an expression of opinion, wishing to get all sides of all subjects, and he sent this strong statement: “In addition to the vile and poisonous substitution for whiskey so largely consumed, and in addition to the increased drug habit since Prohibition, Prohibition has made a nation of grouches. It has taken the joy out of the American people, as can be attested by almost every social gathering. The whole scheme is unwarrantable interference with the personal freedom of the people, and increases discontent and resentment in the knowledge that those who have it, have it. I firmly believe that a modification of the Volstead Act so that beer and light wines may be manufactured and sold under proper regulations would solve the whole question rationally and helpfully.”