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RMOAD TAX SLITS.

Origin, Ohjoct and Results cf This

Famous Litigation,

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property for the purposes of taxation in this state had not bts n faithfully and . honestly executed. The principle of valuing property according to its true | cash value and placing all property upon ! the tax duplicate had not been adhered to, but had been abandoned, and the question was sharply presented to the people of the state as to whether the government of Indiana should be supported by means of a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, or by

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. borrowing money to support the governbngageu the Courts, meut, aud thereby going into debt and

increasing the state debt each year.

The lesson taught by the passage of the tax law of 1H1M was the lesson of ] constitutional taxation based upon a , uniform and equal rate of assessment. ) As soon as the law was passed its exoenI tion assumed a partisan phase. One poI litical party of the state, at least, <le- ! nouneed the law as infamous and retardj ed its execution and enforcement in | every way possible; and so tierce were tlie assaults made upon this system of

Prior to the passage of the tax law, fixation by the Republican party that . , even tin* friends of the law despaired of approved March fl, 1891, the subject <>f its execution and, at times, wem almost taxation in this state was practically j willing to abandon the effort of eonstitumisunderstood. Those who paid taxes tional taxation in tliis state. While it under the old system did so upon valua- " as I 11 "’.’ yi ' Vils :1 new

... enactment, and Iwing a new enactment,

tions fixed by themselves, without the its enemies urged against it all the obslightest legal n'straint or desire to fix a ; jections that might have been made value upon their property representing ' against an original and new law. It beeither a fair or true cash value. Every ! ? amo u^essary, to carry out the provis- , , , , ^ ions of the law of 1 HSU, that nearly every person had been educated to the belief R T tion of it should he defmided and eon-

that it was right to foret

The Democratic Law Fully Vindicated. Valuable Work of Attorney General Smith — An Adverse Opinion Would Have Ibtnkrupted the State—Full and Succinct History of These Great Suiiti and AnalyHis of the Law They Were

Intended to Nullify.

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valuations

down, because it was generally understood that the policy of taxation in this state rested upon the principle that to force a low valuation of property was to escape, in a measure, the payment of taxes necessary to support the government. This principle was manifested most clearly in valuations fixed upon all classes of corporate property. The own- ' ers of this property, being able to present their contentions more fully before the taxing boards than the owners of other property, always got the advantage of the situation by representing a condition which caused the authorities to place

strued by someone. This defense began early in the spring of is'.n and was vigorously prosecuted by the attorney genend until all the values for that year had been fixed and placed upon the tax duplicate. The contest which was waged during that year against the tax system by tin* corporate interests of this and other states having property in this state was the fiercest and most unrelenting that has lieen witnessed since the organization of the state government. From the tax boards, who fixed the values upon the property of the rich and wealthy, nppe:ils were taken to the courts for the purpose of having the salient features of the law declared unconstitutional. It was alleged in the courts that this law violated nearly all of the pro-

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the lowest possible valuation upon their visions in the constitution of Indiana, property, and this fact was known to j and that it violated the most essential

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if the state aud to ! provisions of the constitution of the

United States; that it denied due pro-

„ , , . . ,, i cess of law to the corporations; owners of real estate and other small (U>niwl th( . „ (iual 111 , ir ,, l . tl , )U of possessions entered into the spirit j laws to them; that it was of the times and fully competed i an invasion of the constitutional with the owners of corporate property | provision tlrat the states shall not reguto the end that values should be made late or place a burden upon iuterstati

as low as possible, aud in this competitive struggle for low values the land owner and the possessor of homes and small holdings were necessarily the sufferers from sueli a system. They could not, and did not, compete in tins matter with those who held large property interests and controlled the corporate wealth of the state. Therefore in a

commerce. It was alleged by these corporations, who sought to break clown this system, that the valuations fixed upon their property were so high that, in themselves, they constituted a fraudulent administration of the law and, for this reason, they asked that the power of the court be exerted in their behalf. It will be remembered now, ami a history of transaction has been written.

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tlm statu roceivod tho largest lienefit from this system of pressing down the values of the taxable property, and the owners of other property were necessarily made to bear the largest share of the public burden. This was the condition of things when the legislature of IH'.U met to consider ways aud means to raise a sufficient revenue to carry on the affairs of tho state government, to pay the interest on the public debt and to gradually reduce the principal. The principle of taxation, that justice and equality can only lie maintained by placing it fair cash value upon all property, had been lost sight of, and those most fortunate in the scramble to avoid taxation bore the least share of the public burden while, as in all such eases, those wlto were most numerous and farthest removed from the taxing authorities were made to liear the greatest, as well as an unequal, share of the public burden. Prior to 1HD1 there was no such tiling as equality in assessment of taxes in this state. The constitutional provision which provides for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation had been lost sight of or totally disregarded by those who may have misunderstood it. Another principle under this system of taxation, which had been forgotten or disregarded, was that an increased and equal valuation of all property does not necessarily increase the amount of taxes to bo paid by the citizen, for the reason that where all property is placed upon the tux duplicate at its true cash value all citizens will pay equally, according to the property which they own, and the higher the valuation the lower the rate of taxation; so it is a fundamental truth that the proper way to reduce the taxes, which the citizens must Vi- ar as a reward for good government, is to place upon tho tax duplicate all the property of the state and attach to it a value according to the cash basis, which alone enn equaiic- the burden of taxation. But tliis was not the rule prior to 1891, and the principle of equality having been d'-stroyed by a violation of the constitutional rule of taxation, the burden of government fell most heavily upon that class of property which never can escape tile eye of tho tax assessor, the homes and farms and tangible personal property of the people, while railroads and banks and great corporate interests, the value of which is most difficult to understand, boi’e but a slight portion of the public burden in comparison to what the people necessarily had to pay by reason of this misapplication of the equity rule in taxa-

tion.

in IStJO the property of this state was valued so unequally that it scarcely produced a revenue sufficient to pay the ordinary exp--uses of state government, and did not produce sufficient revenue to carry ou the public institutions of tho state aud pay the interest on the public debt, necessarily requiring each year a temporary loan, at a high rate of iuter-

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ion of the case by the supreme court of the LTiited States then- has been paid into the county treasuries throughout the state at least $4,000,000, the direct tuid necessary result of the victory won by the attorney general of Indiana over the corporations of this state. No such victory was ever before won for a state in tlie matter of taxation. The contest which resulted in bringing these taxes into the public treasury of the various counties of this state was directed,

SS'iS'ir, vz. now a, ]«*»■ * it» w« menced with the beginning of the con- I'roilTlt AllOllt.

troversy and first laid open to the people of this state the doctrine of constitutional taxation in the great bank controversy, which originated in the superior court of Marion county, wherein the best lawyers of tlie state appeared for the purpose of getting a decision not so much affecting tho banks, but a decision that would break down those laws aud destroy their force in the matter of railroad and corporate taxation. This contest was carried on by the attorney general, not for any good result that might come in the so-called bank litigation, but for the purpose of asserting the constitutional power of taxation and maintaining it, so that when the threatened suits, which were afterwards brought, should be commenced, that this policy of battle should be continued all along the line as against them. And it is not forgotten that the fight made in the superior court and afterwards in the supreme court in the bank eases resulted in the establishment of the same constitutional doctrine as was afterwards asserted and settled by the supreme court of the United State’s. These contests on the part of the attorney general in asserting tlie truedoc - triue of constitutional taxation lias set at rest forever tin- objections raised against the law involved in these litigations, and theamount of taxes which tlie settlement of these questions will produce to the people of the state of Indiana in the future cannot be well or accurately calculated. They are like Tennyson's Brook. They will flow on forever, and if the public- servants selected to administer this law in the future will adhere to the doctrine as asserted by the attorney general, and execute the duties of their trust with fidelity to the people, it will not be 10 years until this system of taxation will produce sufficient money not only to carry on affairs of the state, but to pay file interest on the state debt and to wipe out the principal. And it is to be hoped that the lesson taught by tliis great contest will never fall upon deaf cars, nor be forgotten by the taxpayers of Indiana, and it is the prayer of all good peoplci that neither time nor jealousies, the egotism of some or the vanity of others, will ever deprive the real an thor of this blessing to our state of the merits due him for ids labor and fidelity in standing by the cause of all people in behalf of just, uniform and equal taxation, to the end that every citizen of high or low degree, of much or little property, will be required to pay his just share of the public burden and feel that when tin- taxpaying time comes that he has not been called upon to contribute

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Tlie codes prevailing iu most of the states were crude, inqierfect, unsatisfactory in operation and often little short of barbarous. The socalled ballot laws led to endless confusion in practice and were fruitful breeders of corruption and oppression. They seemed esjs'euilly adapted to invite that most insidious aud dangerous crime against the life of a republic, tlie

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and other corporations, was the result of more to the maintenance of good govthe labors of the attorney general, who eminent than his in ighbors have been

gave such construction to this system of taxation that, when the values were increased ujwin real estate by the local authorities, it became absolutely certain aud necessary that the values of corporate property under the jurisdiction of the state board should be increased by that body. There was no escaping tlie proposition that prior to the passage of the law, real estate had borne the heaviest share of the public burden, and although it was not valued at its true cash

required to do.

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IN INDIANA.

The Grout Magnate Now Has to Pay For

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value, still ir was valued proportionately { state of a single dollar for the privilege, higher than corporate projierty within were run on every railroad in tin stub , and tli.it shut tin 1 <M ; the state, enjoying the protection of the

laws and making enormous sums of increasing tlie valueover -Hi per cent over '

sessors valued real estate at a deemed to lie its true cash value, thereby

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the value of former years, that the authority charged with the duty of valuing railroad property must increase the value of that projierty in snob equal proportions as to bring it up to the level of a statutory cash value. The action of placing a value upon property for the purpose of taxation is merely an executive or administrative function which, if honestly performed, must proceed in the line of construction given to tlie general system, so that one class of property shall liear the same relation to the public burden its any other class of prop-

erty shall bear.

Prior to 18111 railroad property in this state had been valued in the aggregate at $i)!i,tHHi,(HHi. It was admitted by tlie railroads themselves that tliis valuation represented only three-fifths of the true cash value of such property, and to bring it up to the true cash value it would require a large increase to be placed iqxni all railroad property. Tliis increase was the result of tlie general contest which was waged iu behalf of the law by the attorney general of the state, who fought the corporations on the basis of equal and just taxation at every inch, and cot.tested \>hL them every step from tlie passage of tlie law to the values fixed by tlie assessing boards. And with tliis contest the values on tlie property of railroads were increased from ssiill,000,000 to $1111,000,000. Tliis iuc roast ■ represents the difference lift ween the true cash value of the projierty us fixed by the board under the construction given to the law by the attorney general and tlie values which they themselves fixed upon their property. The per cent of increase of 1891 over 18!io was 130, and it was tliis increase that drove these corporations into the courts, where the attorney general appeared and fought them from tlie circuit court through the supreme court of Indiana and to and through the supreme court of the United States, in one of the most bitterly contested lawsuits that has ever been brought or concluded in this country, and the success which crowned the efforts of the attorney general in thes" lawsuits is written in the history of this state. The amount involved, directly

est, to meet these public expenditures. | an( ] indirectly, in the litigation which

And it was tins condition, winch was known and severely felt throughout tins state, that prompted certain persons to demand of the legislature of IHiq that the entire tax laws of the state be revised, and to cause a n-valuation for tho purpose of taxation of all property, real, personal and corporate, to be made in the year 1891. The revisions of the tax laws of that year did not essentially differ in principle from the laws that IluYu always Lha n in i vnen in this state. In fact, they had the same machinery for valuing railroad property and equalizing the

resulted in the supreme court of tin United States holding the law to 1m* constitutional and refusing to interfere with the assessment of the taxes against these corporations is, at first blush, fabulous. No such consideration was ever involved in any tax litigation in tliis country. Tlie law was assailed liecause it was unconstitutional, and if the courts had held that it was unconstitutional all th* taxes assessed under it would have bei i null aud void, and where any »>t then, i had ln-eii paid the state would have bet i | obliged to refund them to tlie corpora i tions. Tim amount involved in th:

value of real estate and to value i litigation on the day the supreme court small holdings and personal property of tif ^ Ullitud decided tlu, ca,. the citizens prior to 1891 as i- mcorpor- ! p, fuvor () f the state was $7.101,8J7. Ot a ted m the tax laws of that year. But i’tfiis amount at least *3,000,000 had he.; .

tlie laws concerning the y&lnation of all paid under protest, aud since tho cU-cio i ^e compelled to respect

money for tlie owner, and yet there was no statute requiring any return for tliis. What was mode was clear profit, and if other states have been equally generous there need he little wonder that this corporation found little difficulty in ac cumulating a fortune. Exemption from taxation is of itself equal to a good per cent on investment, as everything is receipts and no expenditure, and the making of fortunes is greatly simplified. Not only Pullman, however, but the telegraph companies and the express companies were equally fortunate in tliis respect. Tlie only taxes they paid was on their office fund ture and other appurtenances of this kind, which amounted to little or noth ing. But for using the territory of tlie state for their lines and other privileges of indispensable value to such coqMiratious these companies, like Pull.nan,

went seottfree of taxation.

During the la-t session of the legisltv ture Attorney (tenoral Smith drafted a bill to remedy tliis omission and to add the favored companies to the list of state taxabl. s. The bill was drastic in its provisions and supplied a long felt want, but it was by no means allowed smooth sailing through tile legislature. On tlie contrary, it met with most determined and angry opposition. A robust and well paid lobby was on hand to fight it at every stage. Tlie Western Union and the express companies, as well as the redoubtable Pullman, were ou hand “by attorney to sis* that thir bill was scotched if not killed. It was a formidable array of lawyers, professional lobbyists and interested parties that confronted Mr. Smith, but tlu* plucky attorney general succeeded iu defeating the “army of occupation” and finally got the bill passed. It was not, however, until the very last day of the session aud after tin* hardest kind of a tight that tlie new statute became a certainty. As a result of its provisions the state of Indiana lias been made richer this year by $100,(100, and this off of property which was never before a subject of taxation. It was not without a struggle, however, that the tax was collected, even after tho law was passed. The companies refused to pay, showed fight and the attorney general was compelled to enter suit against them, it is in the nature of corporations that if allowed to enjoy special privileges for a term of years they eventually come to consider them vested rights. Abuses of tliis kind become entreiiched and it is always difficult— sometimes impossible—for the state to dislodge tin* possessors with all tin* ma-1‘iiitn-iy of liU ia'** .il ii.** o.ick. 1 lie new law above described makes a valuable supplement to the general tax law of tin* state, and for both the Democratic party deserves full credit. It has done invaluable w'rk in the Iasi- few years in teaching various corporations that the state has some rights which they will

chicane, while tin* voter outside was left a prey to unprincipled party “workers’’ and the schemes of designing politicians. How to remedy this crying abuse was long a subject of earnest thought on tlie part of many American legislators. Various schemes were devised, but none were satisfactory in operation. The socalled reforms proved inadequate to reach the seat of the evil; the relief was hut temporary, and one by one they were abandoned as wholly inadequate to the emergency. At length, unable to invent for themselves, the ballot reformers were forced to go across the world for a hint of the needed law. It was left for the people of the former penal colony of Australia to solve the vexed problem. They invented what lias since been widely famed as tin* Australian ballot law. While not perfect, nor a complete remedy for all abuses, the Australian system is undoubtedly the tx*st yet devised for the purpose. While simple in operation, the results under honest administration are so fair as to satisfy the most exacting. Indiana was among tho first of the states of the American Union to adopt tliis new system. When the Democratic party took charge of the legislature in 1889 one of tin* first measures introduced was a lull to reform the ballot, modeled on the Australian law. The Republican party opposed it bitterly. Under the old system that party hail enjoyed a great advantage. The loose methods and imperfect details afforded facilities for the practice of those abuses in which the Republican party had Ix'como an adept aud an artist. Under tlie old laws tiiat shameless traffic in votes, which for years made the name of Indiana a byword and a reproach, had been brought by the Republican party to such a degree of perfection that honest elections were an impossibility under these laws. Dorsey's two-dollar-bill campaign of 1880 converted the whole state into a market for the purchase and sale of votes. Under these laws in 1888 Dudley reduced tho "blocks of five” system to a fine art. Our elections for years were roaring farces, when not bloody tragedies, and free government was practically overthrown by the poisoning of its basic principle at the fountain source. From all these evils the state was rescued by the Democratic ballot law, \\ hu.li first went into operation at tin* fall election in 1H90. Then, for tlie first time probably since the war, Indiana had an election Unit was absolutely honest and fair. Tho humblest citizen was able to vote in perfect secrecy, undeterred by tlie pestiferous “ticket handler” ou tho one hand or the partisan intimidator on the other. Crowds of hoodlums no longer assembled around tlie polls to abash or influence the honest voter. Tho trade of the vote buyer was abolished and the occupation of the whipper-in was gone. Under the new law it was found practically impossible to bring tlie power of money to bear to influence votes. Nor can tin* wealthy employer control his workingmen its formerly, as under the Australian system it is impossible to ascertain how any man casts liis.l ballot. These aud other evils were re • moved, and it is not too much to say that Indiana now enjoys an electoral system Unit is substantially perfect. Elections being honest and the count fair, tin* people acquiesce peacefully and cheerfully in the will of tlu* majority as ascertained at the ixills. No longer is the bitter complaint heard that “the state was bought’’ or “tho count was not honest,” which cries constituted the aftermath of every general election held in the state from tin* lib’s to tin* 90’s. It is the enduring glory of the Democratic party that it placed this great law on the statute book aud thereby rescued the state from the incalculable evils incident to a corrupted suffrage. Not only was it the greuiust oi reforms itself, but il was the fruitful parent of other great reforms which depend for realization upon an honest s^sicm'ifi

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Notice is therefore hereby given said De fondant that unless hs be end appear on the 27th day of the next Term of the Putnam Circuit Vourt, the same being Octobe • 3, A. D. W4, -it tbe Court House in the > itv of Greencastle, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the SLmie will be heard and determined in his

absence.

Witness my name, and me seal of said Court, atiixed at the city of <ireencastle, this 29th

day of August, A. D. 1801. DANIHL T. DARNALL, Clerk.

Allee & Nelson, PllT.’s Attys. 3t20

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voting. Had tlie Democratic party dune I , , . , . uo more iuallit.laUi oarer, the passage And everything else ,n proportion,

of the Australian ballot law would alone

entitle it to the lasting gratitude of tho

people of Indiana.

I will save you money if you will come and see me, or write to me and I will make prompt answer. sisept