- Doc Saunders, an alcoholic, leaves his little daughter Mayme in the care of his sister and goes West to start a new life. In the little town of Sago, Doc becomes an avowed prohibitionist, thus earning the enmity of Art the saloon keeper. Back East, Mayme grows to adulthood and marries reporter Jimmy Baggs who has just been hired by the newspaper in Sago. When Jimmy begins to drink heavily, Mayme appeals to the town doctor for help. Doc Saunders, recognizing her, chooses not to disclose that she is his daughter, but instead invites them to move into his house for treatment. Jimmy reforms until one day he is sent to the saloon to get a statement on the liquor question for his paper. When Jimmy returns home drunk, Doc, enraged, invades the saloon brandishing a gun and shooting wildly. Doc is arrested and tried, but pronounced not guilty by a jury that sympathizes with him. With Art's power finally broken, Doc confesses to Mayme that she is his daughter, and the family sees an end to their troubles.
- Doctor Saunders, living in Sago City, Montana, has for fifteen years fought the desire for liquor. He has left his motherless daughter in the care of his sister, bidding her keep the child in ignorance of her father or his past. In Midvale Mayme, the doctor's daughter, has grown to young womanhood and falls in love with Jimmy Baggs. Jimmy has inherited a tendency to drink, and loses his job as reporter on the Midvale paper because of it. He gets a position on the paper in Sago City and goes west with Mayme. Jimmy is unable to keep away from drink, and Mayme goes to Doctor Saunders for help. During the course of the conversation Saunders finds Mayme is his own daughter, but does not reveal his identity because of his past. "Art," a saloon-keeper in Midvale, has a grudge against Saunders because he has turned prohibitionist, and hopes to strike the doctor through Jimmy, to whom Saunders has taken a great liking. "Art" gets Jimmy drunk, and when Saunders finds this out he shoots "Art," who is badly wounded. At the trial Saunders is acquitted and Jimmy is brought to his senses.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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