- With the $1,000 prize money that wharf rat Michael Regan wins boxing, he is able to purchase a saloon and a freight-handling concern and begin his rise to success. By persuading his men to work for half the standard rate, Regan gains control of grain-shipping contracts held by his rival, the once wealthy James Griswold, now on the verge of bankruptcy because of Regan. When Regan meets and falls in love with Emily Griswold, he offers to merge with Griswold for permission to court Emily. She marries Regan, but remains a wife in name only. When Griswold's son provokes a strike, Regan's friend, Porkey McCoy, hits the young Griswold with a brick as he makes a speech. Regan is arrested as an instigator, but McCoy's wife insists that her husband confess. In prison, Regan turns over his property to Emily and releases her from their marriage, but she has grown to love him and refuses. When he is released, they resume their marriage and become the godparents to McCoy's son.—Pamela Short
- Michael Regan is of Irish decent and a born fighter. This fighting instinct helps Regan to success. He becomes first of all, a bartender, then a saloon proprietor. Two of his best friends are Sullivan and McCoy. They have been boys together. Sullivan becomes a priest, and Porky McCoy becomes Regan's right hand man. Regan goes in for politics. He also buys up mortgages. His power increases as his field of labor widens. He begins to gain the monopoly of the grain-shipping contracts which before his advent had been under the control of Griswold and Son, an old established firm. Old John Griswold and his son are on the brink of ruin. Regan has two sides to his nature. The man of iron, hard, merciless and a grafter, and the man who feeds the starving, would give his life for his friend and delight in the smile of a child. While visiting and helping the poor, he meets and loves Emily Griswold. In his hard fighting life, he has seen little of women, and Emily becomes his ideal. When the situation of the Griswolds becomes desperate, they ask Regan to visit them. He comes and offers them relief through an amalgamation of interests. When questioned as to his reason for this leniency, when he has everything in his power, he tells them he wishes to try and win Emily for his wife. Emily and Regan marry, but her brother, full of hatred for Regan, becomes an agitator, and rouses the men to strike against his brother-in-law. Things become really serious now for Regan. Scanlan, the workman's delegate, comes to Regan and lays down the terms that young Griswold has dictated to them. Regan laughs and defies, and Scanlan becomes abusive. Regan strikes him and he falls. Regan in prison, McCoy comes to him and says his wife insists that he give himself up. Regan will not hear of this, and sends him home. But McCoy goes straight to the judges and makes an affidavit that proves Regan innocent. Emily comes to visit her husband. He gives into her hands the mortgages of all the property, with which to do as she likes. But in Emily's heart a deep love has grown for her husband and before they leave the prison for home, Regan has learned that Emily is a most faithful wife. Regan and his wife never forget the devotion of the faithful McCoy, and are last seen as Godfather and Godmother to his son and heir.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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