“_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. “Mr. Meyer has commonly been called the Napoleon of the whisky trade. He is largely interested in the recently formed combine. “‘We intend to make plenty of whisky. No brand will be killed,’ said Mr. Meyer.” Henceforth the names of Levy Mayer, Alfred Austrian and Angelo Meyer appear most frequently in the reports. “Alfred Austrian, who is Levy Mayer’s legal representative, says that all the distilleries now negotiated for will be absorbed in three weeks more.” “In an interview today Mr. Angelo Meyer said, ‘I believe confidently that in the next five years a business calling for 10,000,000 gallons of whisky a year will be built up.’” In April, 1899, another Jewish movement appeared: “Joseph Wolf, the Chicago whisky dealer, who is said to own more Kentucky whisky, independent of the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company, than any other individual or corporation, is behind the new whisky combine formed in Chicago with a capital stock of $3,000,000. The purpose of the new trust, which it is said will be given the title of the Illinois Distilleries and Warehouse Company, is to fight the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company.” The few remaining Kentucky distillers were wary; they regarded Wolf, probably with reason, as simulating enmity to the other part of the Jew-made whisky trust, in order to sweep into his net the remaining independents.