. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . ation to real and personalproperty has stood as an unconquerable obstacle to every effort to getactually equal taxation, by means of an income tax, or any othei modethan the general property tax. The failure to provide a just and equalsystem of taxation has been the cause of more injustice to the peopleof Indiana than all other forms of misgovernment combined. Primarilythis is the fault of the people themselves, because they do not insist onthe enforcement of the tax laws. Demands for law e
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . ation to real and personalproperty has stood as an unconquerable obstacle to every effort to getactually equal taxation, by means of an income tax, or any othei modethan the general property tax. The failure to provide a just and equalsystem of taxation has been the cause of more injustice to the peopleof Indiana than all other forms of misgovernment combined. Primarilythis is the fault of the people themselves, because they do not insist onthe enforcement of the tax laws. Demands for law enforcement arecommon enough, and insistent enough, but thev are commonly confined INDIANA AND INDIANANS 449 to liquor and social evil laws, and overlook the more inexcusable andmore vicious violation of the tax laws. The recognition of God in the preamble was not due to any particularreverence, on the part of the delegates, but to a petition from the peopleof Gibson County. It occasioned considerable debate, but was finallyadopted by a vote of 124 to 1, the objector being Judge Pettit who never -^ neglected an opportunity to air his hostility to religion. Pettit was oneof Indianas most noted freaks. He was born at Sacketts Harbor,N. Y., where his father was a shipbuilder. His parents were pious folk,and desired to educate him for the ministry, but he early developed adislike for theologj, and refused to continue his collegiate course imlessthe plan was abandoned, and he was allowed to study law. To this hisparents reluctantly consented, but the president of the college enteredon a special campaign to convert the young rebel, and finally succeeded 450 INDIANA AND INDIANANS in making him so angry that he ran away, and found a job as office boywith Judge Potter, of Waterloo. In 1830 he started west; stopped toteach school for a year near Troy, Ohio, and on May 12, 1831, ajrivedat Lafayette, with a fortune of $3. He had a forcible, rather rough styleof oratory, that took with th
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