Excerpt from The Sympathy of the People<br><br>Like all plays and works of fiction there is no attempt to adhere to facts either in the course of events or in the characters portrayed. In the Boston police strike there was no important love affair, no Lucy Knowles, no Dennis Wiggs, no Grimes, and no banks were broken into.<br><br>In Boston today there are many, who like Samuel Gompers, believe the disastrous strike was framed in order to allow labor to ride to a fall, as it apparently did.<br><br>NO event could have been staged - if it were staged - with greater genius and with results more far-reaching in the struggle between capital and labor. From coast to coast there set in a reaction against labor which did much to carry a conservative president into Office, with the illustrious governor Of Massachusetts for second place.<br><br>Of course, a considerable portion Of substantial Boston denies vehemently any preconceived plot to injure the labor unions and the labor movement generally.<br><br>Who is right or who is wrong in the controversy the author does not pretend to say.<br><br>He saw a possible plot; he took advantage of a great drama enacted in real life; and he shaped a dramatic story in a faraway town which would make a thrilling and absorbing play.<br><br>Here is an attempt to give amusement; to depict real human characters; to provide wholesome fun; and to mirror deep and absorbing love in artistic and dramatic form - for, after all.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.