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- The picture opens with a scene in the home of a Russian Jewish family, which develops that the student son is in love with a Gentile girl. In the course of events he finds that his religion stands in the way of his love and he becomes a convert to Christianity He is cast out by his own people and at the same time the Christians do not accept him whole-heartedly. His treatment at the hands of his people causes him to swear vengeance on them, and he becomes a priest later in life. The story now carries over to a tavern, where a company of thieves is planning the robbery of a farmer, who drives by in his wagon. When they commit the deed, a small boy happens to be in the neighborhood and witnesses it. Frightened, he runs to the very tavern where the crime was planned and tells Vera, who is one of the ringleaders, what he saw. This makes the boy the object of fear on the part of the band and he is locked in a room, from which he never emerges. We now see a session of the "Black 107," the most feared and powerful of Russian anti-Semitic societies. The alarm has been sounded and they have seized upon the murder of the boy as a means for causing further persecution of the Jews. They order the chief of police to find the Jew who committed the crime and when he reports on an investigation of the murder that there are no such indications he is removed from office and cast into prison. His successor is a tool of the "Black 107." however and this leads to the arrest of Mendel Beliss. All through the story thus far is shown that the converted Jew who has become a priest is the chief council and right arm of the "Black 107." He has taken a terrible means for wreaking his vengeance on the Jews and it is because of the fact that he was himself a Jew earlier in life that the "Black 107" makes great capital of his testimony. When the trail comes on, it is his testimony which is the most damaging and we show how, while the trial is in progress, the Jews throughout the civilized world wait breathlessly for the verdict. When at last it comes and Beliss is acquitted there is great rejoicing and when the picture finishes, the innocent victim with his little family gathered about him, is turning his face toward the golden land of opportunity.
- William Sulzer, impeached governor of New York, plays himself in this story of political corruption, thrills, and romance.
- Nell Walker, a settlement worker carries on her activities of the slums, completely disregarding and laying aside all the luxuries and opportunities that her parent's wealth offers her. She is brought in immediate contact with that portion of humanity, unknown and unfamiliar to her, but she ministers to the wants of the weak and the poor, in true and unselfish spirit. Her fiancé, Bob Brennan, is against her doing that kind of work, and gives her the preference either to break off the engagement or give up settlement work. She gives up her fiancé. Bob meets a beautiful woman who comes from the slums and marries her. On a certain occasion, Bob saves a gambler by the name of Tom from a certain beating at the hands of a gang, and they become fast friends. Bob introduces Tom to his wife and their friendship turns into an infatuation. Bob's suspicions of his wife surprises the two, and he orders her out of his home. Nell Walker, still doing her settlement work, meets Bob, who on her advice joins "The Society of Suppression of Vice," and they both seem to be thrown together in their effort to get evidence against his wife, who has become since an owner of a gambling den. Bob masks as an old man who has a new invention and takes a flash-light of the surroundings so as to make use of same as evidence against his wife. Being frightened at the exposure, Tom and Bob's wife decide to lure him into their place and dispose of him. They lure him with a letter from a doctor, claiming that his wife is at her death bed, and when he gets there, they overpower him with chloroform and put him in the basement, where they decide to explode a quantity of dynamite, so as to cover up their murder by blowing up the entire house. Nell Walker learns of the letter, and gathering a party of men to the place, she rescues him just in time from the terrible death, and has the two guilty ones arrested. Getting his divorce, Bob and Nell are re-united again.
- A gang of "Dock Rats" have long eluded the harbor police, and it is now up to Blake to wipe them out. Ordinarily it would have been an easy job, but in this case the power behind this gang is a man of apparent respectability. From a low, dirty, general merchandise shop there runs a secret tunnel leading to the drawing room of Jasper Jones, a philanthropist and church worker. With him lives Edith, his ward, whom he loves and hopes to marry. This probably would have happened, if Blake had not started on the trail of the "Dock Rats." Blake disguised as a sailor, feigns an escape from the police and is gladly welcomed by the gang. He is soon one of them, and drinks with them in their vile retreats under the slimy piers. Learning that there is a power behind them he becomes suspicious of one, Abraham Levi, a wily old dealer in general merchandise. Blake meets Edith, who soon welcomes his attention, and he soon meets Jasper Jones, her guardian. In the course of events, the police seize an old wreck upon which the "Dock Rats" are trying to get away and there is a desperate struggle for life. The gang manage to get to the pier and try to hide in the tenement section, at hand. The police fearlessly pursue them to the roofs of the buildings, where one of the Rats almost sends a policeman to his death, from a hanging rope, but is foiled by a timely bullet from the gun in Blake's hand. Blake soon discovers that he is on the path of a remarkable criminal. Abraham Levi, bent, dirty, meek and cunning is none other than Jasper Jones, well-to-do and respected by the community. This gives Blake a double motive and he resolves that Edith shall not marry the scoundrel. He sets to work and weaves his network of evidence about Jones, alias Levi until the hour arrives that Jones is to marry. Just at the moment when the fateful words are to be spoken, the minister removes his wig and there stands Detective Blake. Jones, realizing that all is over, escapes by a quick move to the den he occupies as Abraham. Determined upon revenge, Jones sets a bomb, but Edith and Blake fortunately are not injured. Blake and the police make their way to Levi's den, where they round up the entire gang of "Dock Rats." Levi is brought to the police station, where Edith is asked to identify him. She swears that she does not know the old man and then Blake, with a quick movement, tears the wig from the head of Levi and there, before the horror-stricken Edith, stands her guardian, Jasper Jones.
- A political boss is the proprietor of a tenement dive. He is, however, large in heart and spirit, and is ever the friend of the ill-treated girl. When he is confronted with the tragedy of his own daughter's misstep, he is overcome with remorse and closes his café and seeks consolement and higher ideals by leaving the trail of the bright lights for the cool green fields of rest in the country. The politician places his motherless daughter in an exclusive seminary when she is quite young. Here, when a grown girl of eighteen, she meets a young man who fascinates her. She finally elopes with him, and her father from that moment loses all trace of his daughter. Her husband is found out to be an escaped life-termer from Sing Sing and is sent back to prison. On the verge of being put out of her boarding-house for back rent, she accepts aid from a strange man. He deceives her and uses her as a tool. She is accused of theft and is sent away to the penitentiary for three months. After serving her term she tries to secure a living, but is rebuked and becomes so melancholy over her fight for existence that she is about to plunge into the river and end her strife, but is saved in doing so by a Salvation Army lass, who asks her to accompany her to the man that saved her. She is taken to this same café that her father operates and after a few minutes is recognized by him. He is so overcome that he closes up and seeks a cleaner and better life by persuading her to leave the lure of the city.