“…an era of corruption in High Places…”
“ . . . the Money Power of the country…”
Are these words scary, and familiar?
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching
that unnerves me
and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country . . .
corporations have been enthroned,
an era of corruption in High Places will follow,
and the Money Power of the country
will endeavor to prolong its reign
by working upon the prejudices of the People,
until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands,
and the Republic destroyed.”
Wait a minute! The thing is, this terrible forecast is 158 years old, and, sadly, no less prophetic now than it was during the Civil War when President Abraham Lincoln wrote these words to friend on November 21, 1864.
The industrial revolution was booming then in America, and the economic and corporate foundations were being laid for the predations of the so-called Robber Barons and the captains of industry like Andrew Carnegie and the Gilded Age’s wolves of Wall Street like J. P. Morgan.
You can guess that Old Abe must have been looking into a dark space when he had that vision.
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