A. Nine years old, but I want to explain in that respect that the whisky may not have existed nine years before it was put into that bottle.... That brand of whisky which we brand as nine years old blended, means that it is equal to nine-year-old whisky in smoothness and quality. Q. How did you arrive at the fact which you put upon this bottle that the whisky was nine years old? A. Because it is comparatively nine years old. Q. How do you arrive at that result? A. By sampling. You take the whisky that is allowed to remain in the original package for nine years and compare it with our nine-year-old blend and you will find them in smoothness the same. Therefore, we class it as nine-year-old whisky. Let the reader form his own judgment on that type of mind. The whisky bore a name resembling a time-honored brand of pure goods, and it flaunted the name Kentucky, when it was _not_ whisky at all, was _not_ a Kentucky product, but was compounded of neutral spirits from Indiana, prune juice from California, rock candy from anywhere, and raw Illinois whisky from Peoria to give it flavor. Although Louisville, Kentucky, became headquarters of whisky men, it was Cincinnati, Ohio, a thoroughly Judaized city, which became a greater headquarters for the pseudo-whisky men, the compounders, mixers and rectifiers. The list of Cincinnati liquor dealers reads like a directory of the Warsaw ghetto. In Louisville the Judaic complexion of the city, as well as society, is very noticeable; indeed, most of the leading Jews in the whisky business are now Kentucky “Colonels.” The Jewish character of the whisky business since the Civil War may be visualized, by the simple expedient of noting how many of the better known brands have been at various dates under Jewish control: There is “Old 66,” owned by Straus, Pritz & Co. “Highland Rye,” owned by Freiberg & Workum. “T. W. Samuel Old Style Sour Mash,” owned by Max Hirsch, the Star Distilling Company. “Bridgewater Sour Mash and Rye Whiskies,” “Rosewood and Westbrook Bourbon Whiskies,” distilled by J. & A. Freiberg. “T. J. Monarch” and “Davies County Sour Mash Whiskies,” controlled by J. & A. Freiberg. “Louis Hunter 1870,” “Crystal Wedding,” and “Old Jug,” blended by J. & A. Freiberg. “Gannymede ’76,” put out by Sigmund and Sol H. Freiberg. “Jig-Saw Kentucky Corn Whisky,” “Lynndale Whisky,” “Brunswick Rye and Bourbon,” by Hoffheimer Brothers Company. “Red Top Rye” and “White House Club,” by Ferdinand Westheimer & Sons. “Green River” came into the control of E. La Montague. “Sunnybrook,” a widely advertised brand, on whose advertising matter a man in a United States inspector’s uniform stood behind as if endorsing it, was at the time owned by Rosenfield Brothers & Co. “Mount Vernon,” as from the Hannis Distilling Company, was at the time owned by Angelo Meyer.