“American Spirits Manufacturing Company, $35,000,000; Kentucky Distilling and Warehouse Association, $32,000,000; The Rye Whisky Distillers Association, $30,000,000: the Standard Distilling Company, $28,000,000; and the Spirits Distributing Company, $7,500,000.
“The forerunner of the gigantic combination of the whisky interests of the country was the organization of the American Spirits Manufacturing Company upon the ruins of the old whisky trust which was controlled and directed by Joseph Greenhut....
“Attorney Levi Mayer, of Chicago, who has been legal adviser of the whisky people from the inception of the American Spirits Manufacturing Association, was called to New York Saturday last to confer over the legal form of the charter and the closing of the negotiations.”
The italicized portions indicate the connection, and it was a connection maintained to the end, and may indeed be continued yet.
Then, in the current accounts of this merger of the liquor business under Jewish control, another name appears. On March 15, 1899:
“Angelo Meyer, a big whisky buyer of New York, is in Louisville trying to buy a big lot of whiskies.” It appears that Mr. Meyers put on a poor mouth and told how hard it was to buy whisky in big lots.
And then on March 17, two days later, this appeared: “Mr. Angelo Meyer, the wealthy Philadelphia whisky man, has been appointed one of the general managers of the business of the Kentucky Distilleries Company, and is engaged in appointing men to take charge of the various departments of the combine’s affairs.”
The discrepancy in the above two paragraphs need not be charged to the untruthfulness of the newspaper reporter. Reporters as a rule faithfully report what they are told; but sometimes what they are told is not true.