'THE FARMER IS OF MORE CONSEQUENCE THAN gHE FARM, AND SHOULD BE FIRST IMPROVED."

To the careless observer and general critic the making of a law is a very easy thing. But to the actual lawmaker who meets the usual difficulties and encounters the practical obstacles it is a very different matter, and it may be of interest to many to follow the course of a bill from beginning to end. In the first place it may be said that the legislature is only the "machine" through which laws are "ground out." The great majority of bills are perhaps drawn by parties who are not members of the legislature and who introduce them through the senator or representative from their district. To be sure the members draft a great many of their own bills and amendments, but if the bill is of any great or special importance it is generally drawn by some experienced lawyer. So if any person wants a law made he may draft it himself or get some one to draft it for him and request his representative in the legislature to introduce it, or, as is often the case, the mfember of the legislature upon request may both draft and introduce the bill.