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The story opens in the home of a political boss, tenement house owner and smooth grafter. He has just sanctioned the engagement of his son, Edwin, and his ward, Ethel. The son, instead of ... See full summary
The story opens in the home of a political boss, tenement house owner and smooth grafter. He has just sanctioned the engagement of his son, Edwin, and his ward, Ethel. The son, instead of holding his father's views, is a champion of the poor. One day the representative of a corporation leaves a check for $1,000 with the father, accompanied by a letter to the effect that $9,000 more is to follow if a certain franchise is furnished. Edwin finds this letter. Thus he comes to know the source of his father's wealth. He determines that the riches obtained by grafting shall be returned to the poor. He removes the money from the safe and gives it to the tenement people. At another time the father discovers his son in the act of taking money from his strong box. He summons the police and has his son arrested. Ethel explains to the father the use to which the son put the money. He refuses to listen. She leaves the house. For another five years the relentless father pushes his tenants toward the...

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    • Author: Longitude Temporary
    A two-reel number, with Edwin August as producer and principal actor. The father, a political grafter, raises the rent on certain tenements in the poor quarters. The son is an idol among the residents there and distributes his father's graft money with a lavish hand. Later, when the father's enemies are closing in upon him, the son saves him from the Black Hand. The plot is extravagant and melodramatic in the extreme, but it is quite interesting. - The Moving Picture World, May 2, 1914
  • Cast overview:
    Edwin August Edwin August - Edwin
    Ethel Davis Ethel Davis - Ethel
    Edwin Alexander Edwin Alexander - Edwin's Father
    Iva Shepard Iva Shepard
    Alice O'Connor Rhodes Alice O'Connor Rhodes
    Hal August Hal August
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