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have been passed by our legislature, each succeeding year. In 

 other words when your Fathers were young men, and during 

 their lifetime, where they passed one law, today they pass as 

 many as five or ten and perhaps twenty. 



This is true of England. It is true of Continental Europe. 

 It is true of our National Congress and it is particularly true 

 here in Illinois and in the various States of our Union. The 

 pessimist says the world is growing worse. The worse a com- 

 munity is, the more wrongs that are being committed, the more 

 laws they make to correct or to prevent these evils. The State 

 is compelled to stop the committing of wrong. On the other 

 hand the optimist takes the position that all through the world 

 there is an awakening of public conscience. The real cause is 

 in the civilized world, everywhere there has been one of two 

 things, either evolution or revolution. Because of these shifting 

 of growing conditions : Because of the rapid changes in economic 

 and social condition the necessity for a larger amount of laws 

 from year to year has resulted. Today our legislators are bur- 

 dened with bills that come up for their consideration. 



England has succeeded in separating the whole scheme and 

 plan of its legislative work into two parts so that the greater 

 share is taken care of by governmental departments. There is 

 volume after volume of English laws containing nothing but 

 governmental orders. We have no such legislative departments. 

 Another thing, in England, bills are drawn by representatives of 

 the government itself. That is one reason why, when that na- 

 tion moves in legislation it builds progressively and along con- 

 structive lines. 



In our country there are a few states that have departments 

 or bureaus of legislation. Wisconsin is one of them. In matters 

 of constructive law for the farming community there is no more 

 progressive state in the Union. Subjects for proposed legisla- 

 tion are studied by this bureau. Any member of the Legislature 

 may go to such department and find the whole history of any 

 constructive law as drafted and enforced in other states or 

 countries. We have nothing of the kind in Illinois. No such 

 help in legislative matters. While examining certain questions 



