The White Terror (1915)

Selfmade man Emerson Boyd of Everytown owns the Boyd Mills which uses child labor and disregards health regulations and the Boyd Chemical Company which manufactures harmful patent medicines Crooked politician David Duncan the millss general manager misinforms Boyd about factory conditions After Boyds beloved daughter postpones accepting the proposal of Matthew Brand an unambitious rich young man until he does something for humanity Matthew reads an exposé of the mills by editor Clifford Cole He buys Coles newspaper when Boyd attempts to stifle it and supports the National Tuberculosis Societys proposal to build a sanitarium in Everytown to combat the rise of tuberculosis