Chapter I: Front Matter

Books by Alonzo Rothschild

PUBLISHED BY

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

“HONEST ABE.” A Study in Integrity based on the Early Life of
Abraham Lincoln.

LINCOLN, MASTER OF MEN. Illustrated.

“HONEST ABE”

From a woodcut by T. Johnson after a daguerreotype owned by Mr. Robert
T. Lincoln]

“HONEST ABE”

A STUDY IN INTEGRITY
BASED ON THE EARLY LIFE OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

BY

ALONZO ROTHSCHILD

AUTHOR OF “LINCOLN, MASTER OF MEN”

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY META ROTHSCHILD

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published September 1917_

IN MEMORY
OF

“DEAREST”
KATHERINE ROTHSCHILD

TO WHOM THE AUTHOR
OWES NOT LESS THAN
LINCOLN OWED HIS
“ANGEL MOTHER”
THIS BOOK IS
AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED

CONTENTS

I. PINCHING TIMES 1

II. TRUTH IN LAW 41

III. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS 79

IV. DOLLARS AND CENTS 130

V. HONESTY IN POLITICS 195

ALONZO ROTHSCHILD 283

_Memoir by John Rothschild_

A LIST OF BOOKS CITED 307

NOTES 321

INDEX 361

ILLUSTRATIONS

ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Frontispiece_

From a woodcut by T. Johnson in the _Century Magazine_ for February, 1897, after a daguerreotype owned by Mr. Robert T. Lincoln. It is not known when or where the daguerreotype was taken, but it seems probable that it was made either at St. Louis or at Washington when Lincoln was in Congress, December, 1847,-March, 1849

_Alonzo Rothschild_ 285

From a photograph by Marceau, Boston

“HONEST ABE”