THE AMERICANS
By
Edwin Davies Schoonmaker
NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
1913
COPYRIGHT 1913 BY MITCHELL KENNERLEY
PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & IVES COMPANY, NEW YORK
To my Father and my Brother Frank
[Author's Note]
The drama here published is logically the third in a series of racial dramas, as follows:
- The Saxons
- The Slavs
- The Americans
- The Hindoos
Of this series The Saxons, dealing with man's struggle for religious liberty, has already been published. For reasons that need not be given, it has been thought best to postpone The Slavs, which will present man's battle for political liberty, and offer The Americans, the theme of which is the industrial conflict that is now raging. The Hindoos, a drama of spiritual unfoldment, will come in its order.
[PERSONS OF THE DRAMA]
| J. Donald Egerton | Lumber king and mill-owner |
| Augustus Jergens | A partner |
| Sam Williams | Leader of the strikers |
| General Chadbourne | In command of the State Militia |
| Captain Haskell | Second in command |
| Rev. Ezra Hardbrooke | Bishop of the Diocese |
| John. W. Braddock | Governor of the State |
| Ralph Ardsley | Editor of the Foreston Courier |
| Chief of Police | Coöperating with the Militia |
| George Egerton | Son of Donald Egerton |
| Harry Egerton | Son of Donald Egerton |
| Harvey Anderson | Former cowboy and Rough Rider |
| Buck Bentley | One of the Militia |
| Wes Dicey | A walking delegate |
| Jim King | Supporter of Dicey |
| Rome Masters | Supporter of Dicey |
| Cap Saunders | An old miner |
| Bill Patten | Striker, off in search of work |
| Silas Maury | Striker, off in search of work |
| Willie Maury | Son of Silas Maury |
| Mary Egerton | Wife of Donald Egerton |
| Gladys Egerton | Daughter of Donald Egerton |
| Sylvia Orr | Friend of Mrs. Egerton |
A chauffeur, a butler, a doctor, a nurse, two maids, two detectives, two sentries, strikers, strike-breakers, militiamen, guests at the reception, etc.
| A land is not its timber but its people, |
| And not its Art, my father, but its men. |
| —Harry Egerton. |