Forty years before Abraham Lincoln had warned the country when at the close of the war he saw that the race for wealth was already making men and women money-mad.

In 1864 he wrote these words: "Yes, we may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its close.

It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood.

The best blood of the flower of American youth has been freely offered upon our country's altar that the nation might live.

It has been indeed a trying hour for the Republic, but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.