The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-09-05

The Green Mountain Distillery, One of the
Largest and Wealthiest Independent Insti-
buttons in the World, Enters the Field in
Competition with the American Whiskey
Trust.
Of all the nefarious combinations Of capi-
tai which control, or try to control the neces-
sites Of existence and to crush out legitimate
competition, there is none so far reaching in
its scope, so grasping In its methods, so rapG-
cious in its exhibitions Of greed and so
thoroughly INSCRIPTIONS and unrc!enting in
its purpose to throttle the Independent dis
tillers as that prince OF mOnopoes known az
the WHISKEY TRUST.
Along side Of this weH-fed Octopus, the
Standard Oil Trust Is a comparatively limo
cent babe, while the United States Steel
Trust, the Barbed Wire Trust, Plow and
Farm Implement Trusts, Irvine Trust
Leather Trust, Beef Trust and Tobacco
Trust, ct noe omnc genus, are as harmless as
4 serpent with fangs removed.
Since the gigantic hlppogat first raised It's
head in the early seventies, 1t Is estimated
that at least 10000 heads Of families have
been thrown out Of employment at It's COM
mand. man, who has taken the pains to
investigate, has found out that no less than
LOCO distilerics have been shut down by the
Whiskey Trust during the last ten years
Wherever new distillery is started, Just as
soon as 1t commences to do business and TO
make Roadway with the public the Trust
pounces on 1t like spider on its prey and
strong indeed must be the concern that docs
not eventually find itself compelled to sur
render or else engage In a death struggle
wrapped around by the meshes of the Trusts
entangling snares.
Few concerns like TO engage in tbs I'M
equal combat but It sometimes happens, as
In the case Of the Green Mountain Dlstillery,
that the proprietor adopts course of action
that keeps the Trust guessing and renders
Its practices harmless for awhile. These in
stances, however, are very few and can only
be successful where goods are sold to the
consumer direct The success of the plan
rests with the people who buy whIskey and
so long as they support the Independent dis
tillery and insist on having only such goods
as are not dominated by the Trust so long
Will the Trust be pOwerless to combat the
publics' will.
1t is gratifying TO record that the Green
Mountain Distillery which, some time ago
direct 10 the consumer, has In this way been
able TO successfully evade the structures and
hardshlps which II previously labored under
In an unequal fight against the Vaccinations
OF the Trust
Never before has an Independent concern
been SO successful in outwitting the whlskey
maSnates. and the immense business built nm
by the Green Mountain folks, shipping as
they do, thousands of packages daily all over
the country, has proven thorn In the side
OF the Trust and may prove to be the enter
Ing wedge by which the greatest of all com.
and Dowerless, when 1t comes to curtailing
the liberty Of the individual and the efforts
OF free and unmolested trade.
The thanks of the public at large are due
10 the Green Mountain Distillery for hay.
ing pluckily stuck TO the fight until victory
perched on Its banner, and now that ii has
shown other concerns what can be done with
vim and independence, II may be expected
that others will follow In the same way
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