Presley's Socialistic poem, "The Toilers," had an enormous success.

The editor of the Sunday supplement of the San Francisco paper to which it was sent, printed it in Gothic type, with a scare-head title so decorative as to be almost illegible, and furthermore caused the poem to be illustrated by one of the paper's staff artists in a most impressive fashion.

The whole affair occupied an entire page.

Thus advertised, the poem attracted attention.

It was promptly copied in New York, Boston, and Chicago papers.