A two reel feature picture which is, by intention, a political argument and deals with a pertinent topic of the day, abnormally high prices. As a picture, it has much to commend it; but the reviewer finds it the most difficult subject to review that he has yet met. It is not a reviewer's business to discuss political questions or social questions; but it is his duty to tell the exhibitor just what he is getting, so far as he can, and to tell it plainly enough so that the exhibitor will be able to judge for himself. This picture is partisan. It is no cold picture of present day conditions; but an exaggerated and one-sided view of them, let the wrongs that it shows be what they may. Again, without any intention on the producer's part, it has, none the less, a thread of anarchy or at least revolution running through it. In the first place, its showing of conditions is carried beyond the border line of true sanity into pessimism. Again, it is, at times, violent and full of disregard for law and just procedure. It is so, merely because it is violent. It favors Democrats more than Republicans; for while at the end, it shows photographs of Wilson, Harmon, Roosevelt and Taft, it shows a cartoon each with Roosevelt and Taft. We believe the hot- heads will like it; we fear the cold-heads of both parties will not. It is a very effective production. It makes use of the most daring expedients, but gets them over in fine shape. It was made by men who had imagination in marked degree. - The Moving Picture World, June 29, 1912
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