the rear is my greatest foe." Lincoln also appears to have said (although some dispute it): "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 and 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 is destroyed."  Imagine what Lincoln might say today. Given Lincoln's sentiment about the bankers and money power of the country, it would seem to beg the obvious question: did it play a role in, or was it the reason for, his untimely death at the hands of John Wilkes Booth?  The international bankers clearly disliked Lincoln after he managed to get the Congress to pass the Legal Tender Act in 1862 that empowered the US Treasury to issue paper money called "greenbacks."  Lincoln needed this legislation after he declined to pay the bankers the usurious 24 -- 36% interest rates they demanded on the loans he needed to fund his war with the South.  With the new banking law, Lincoln was then able to print up the millions of dollars he needed which was debt and interest free.  Clearly this was not what the greedy bankers wanted as they can only profit when they get their pound of flesh from financial transactions they control.  Right