Recent immigrants, totally ignorant of American customs and speech, are advised to follow a guide who carries a peculiarly marked cane, so they can get around town. Torchy goes into a restaurant and picks up the wrong cane, and all the immigrants immediately follow. He finally palms it off on a policeman, who then has his own troubles. Torchy later learns that the secret service is following the immigrants as one of them is smuggling in aigrettes. He again secures the cane, plants it on his rival for Vee's hand and then contrives to have the secret service men seize him as being connected with the plot.
—Moving Picture World, Motion Picture News, March 1921