| Summary: | This leaflet reprints a letter that Senator John H. Bankhead wrote to Frank V. Evans, editor of The Walker County News. In it he explains why he does not support the proposed prohibition amendment to the Alabama constitution. He argues that prohibition is not "solely a moral issue" because "there are on both sides of the question men of the very highest type of Christian citizenship and civic virtue." He then addresses the timing of the vote, the structure of the legislation, and the provisions of the amendment's two sections: "In my judgment, the solution of the liquor problem is of evolution, not revolution. Public opinion should force the law and not the law public opinion. In my judgment the adoption of the pending amendment will not only fail to accomplish its assumed purpose, but will greatly retard and hinder that educational evolution which will ultimately bring about permanent and effective prohibition."
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