“As people of this class have been coming to us in large numbers from nearly every quarter of the globe, we must take up the task of so educating all classes of our vast population, as that they shall fully understand the importance of maintaining, in its integrity, our constitutional plan of government. They should be taught in the first instance, why it was that the people, in the formative period of our government, were bound to have, and did at last secure, a government which the people could control despite their legislatures, whether representing the states or the federal government.” The existence of the Eighteenth Amendment is based on the sheer assumption that we have not a government of that kind. By all who have discussed the Amendment, whether for or against it, one false assumption has been made. From that false assumption of all, the advocates of the Amendment have drawn their conclusion. On the conclusion is based the existence of the Amendment. The conclusion itself is the direct negation of the simplest and most important fact in America. Moreover, the conclusion itself means that the Americans, twelve years after they “did at last secure” the kind of government they “were bound to have” and of which Judge Parker spoke, voluntarily created a “government” of the opposite kind and made themselves its absolute “subjects.” And the conclusion is correct, if the premise, which is the false assumption of all, be true. Of course, the assumption is absolutely untrue. But no one has seen its simple and patent untruth. Wherefore, the first step in our education is for us to acquire knowledge of the plain fact that it is untrue. Because our leaders do not know the fact, we must go to other teachers. By the common false assumption, the early Americans--who “did at last secure” the kind of government they “were bound to have”--are now charged with having committed the most monumental blunder in all history, a blunder which destroyed their entire achievement. Rest assured! They did not commit that blunder. They themselves make that clear herein. In so doing, they teach us what, with Judge Parker, we agree that we all must know, if America and the American citizen are to remain. They are the best teachers in the world. They know what they teach because they did it. They do not weary or perplex us with theories or principles. Their teaching is the telling of simple facts. Best of all, they tell us in their own simple words, while they are talking to one another and engaged in the very accomplishment of the facts they teach. It is a mere incident of their teaching that they settle the plain fact that the supposed Eighteenth Amendment is not in the Constitution. It is our own candid belief that very few Americans will be found to prefer the existence of the Amendment to the existence of America itself. The early Americans make amazingly clear that there is no America and no American citizen if the Amendment is in the Constitution.