Chester was a typical factory town with its quota of drinking places. The father of one of the boys was a foreman in one of the factories, and he advocated temperance so strongly that some of the men, urged on by an old tavern keeper, plotted so that he lost his position. One day, when partly intoxicated, the tavern keeper’s son climbs in a factory window, smashes things, and is badly burned by acid. He is rescued by the boys who are advocating temperance, who take him to his mother. When the tavern keeper sees the condition of his son, he breaks down, and confesses to the plot against the discharged foreman. Temperance wins out, and the town of Chester becomes far more prosperous than ever before.