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” [Illustration: ABRAHAM LINCOLN 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” [Illustration: colophon] 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” CHAPTER I PINCHING TIMES