Show PAY POLL TAX OR VOTE E in some places a man mail must pay a poll tax if lie ho votes but in kansas cit city y he pay a poll tax if he does not vote four years ago a clause wai wa inserted in the charter of that city to the effect that whenever a citizen failed to vote at any general municipal electon election he should 7 pay a poll tax of this would have been calculated to make solid citizens talc take an ail interest in municipal government if the law had been bean enforced it was riot not however but the auditor kept a record of the delinquents so that they could bo be baroti brought lit to time if necessary the delinquent taxes now amount to nearly the city at length r aued one of the delinquents its as a test case of the constitutionality of the law slid and gained brained I 1 the suit part of the iud judges els decision was wad in these words 1 I uphold tho tax upon the broad ground that it is in the power of a state to compel its voters to exercise the elective franchise and if a a state can do so a city is invested with the game fame power |