CHAPTER III.
The Third Day.
An increased interest was plainly seen in the large attendance on the third day. Coin was also received with marked favor, and groups gathered around him as he entered the hall and warmly shook his hand.
He was assured that Chicago had many bimetallists, but that the subject had been a perplexing one to the people. It was regarded as an abstruse question, and the people generally had not tried to unravel it. It required the knowledge of so many statistics and facts with which the masses were not familiar, they were hardly expected to understand it.
Mr. Joel Bigelow, of 2449 Prairie avenue, was one of the most demonstrative in a cordial greeting to the little financier.
Give it to them, young man," said Mr. Bigelow. "The eyes of the people here have been blinded with this gold craze. I have been distributing Archbishop Walsh's pamphlet among them and have opened some of their eyes."
Mr. Bigelow is an exception to most bimetallists. He had not been forced by personal business disaster to inquire into the cause of so many failures. He is a large real estate owner, owes no debts and has plenty laid by. He is philanthropic. He believes in the happiness of the people. Would that there were more such men!
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