When his proposing Resolution came before the Senate on July 30, 1917, Senator Sheppard quickly made clear his mental attitude on the relation of government to human beings. Whenever a sincere Tory has voiced himself on that matter, it has always been inevitable that he betray the thought that human beings are the assets of the State and not its constituent members. As Madison said, “We have all known the impious doctrine of the Old World, that people were made for kings and not kings for the people.” In the country _or in the mind_ where that doctrine prevails, it is held to be the right and the privilege of government to see that the people, like the other assets of the State, are kept in good condition so that all property of the State may have its greatest economic value in the market of the world. And so we find Sheppard, through all his opening support of the new constitution of government based on the Tory doctrine, making clear the necessity that our government keep that asset, which is the citizens of America, in good physical condition like any other machine that may be in America. “In an age of machinery and of business transactions on a scale more enormous and complicated than ever before, the clear eye, the quick brain and the steady nerve are imperatively demanded. Society today is more dependent upon the man at the machine than at any previous period. We are coming to understand that the engine of the body must have the same care as the engine of the aeroplane, the battleship, the railway train, the steamship or the automobile; that the trade in alcohol is a form of sabotage which the human machine cannot endure; that it is no more to be tolerated than would be the business of making and selling scrap iron to be dropped into the delicate and complex machinery of modern manufacture, transportation and commerce.” (_Congressional Record_, Vol. 55, p. 5550.) After this admirably accurate appreciation of the relation of our American government to the asset which is ourselves, Sheppard then proceeded to teach us (who have just lived through the education of the American human beings who made the Constitution) the real facts of that making, _as he knows them_.