[Note: For example, an illegal duplicate of the film was available in the USA from Siegmund Lubin under the titleA Trip to Mars.It was a symbolic ""haves & have-nots"" class-struggle story with prototypical characters.The masses of poverty-stricken, exploited residents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were forced to live in the empty, embattled streets.When Sarah followed after him, she found his bloodied corpse in he dumb-waiter.Myers chased after her and slashed her in the right thigh as she fled into the dumb-waiter up to another floor.At first in the late 1920s during his campaign, poor, honest, and idealistic Stark is for reform, justice, the underprivileged, and the underdog as he rails against the local County Commissioners:Why have they used every dirty method known to make sure I""m not elected County Treasurer? Well, I""ll tell ya why - because they""re afraid of the truth, and the truth is this.