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...ELEVEN. - Dibblee, Chew, Cary, Pike, Slade, Rogers, Broughton, Winslow, Stevens, Malone, Fairchild, Duffield, Winsor. Curtis, Stone, Friedenberg, Hale, Falk, Call, Dinsmore, Brice, Lecompte, Jackson, Thacher...
...very interested audience listened to a lecture by Dr. Edward Everett Hale on total abstinence in Sever 11 last evening. Dr. Hale said in substance...
...this position. I never took a pledge but once. I had been urging a poor drunken fellow not to drink again for a year, showing him the misery which his habits brought to his wife and children. He answered, "It is all very well for you to talk. Mr. Hale, who can take your glass of wine whenever you like. It is easy for you to tell a poor devil like me that I must not drink a glass of rum when I feel the need of it." I then told him that I would not touch wine again...
...this point Dr. Hale changed his position, from one side of the platform to the other, declared that he had become a different man, and was about to lecture on a different subject...
...Hale closed his lecture by recommending the Total Abstinence League to invite Professor James to deliver a lecture before them on the physiological effects of drinking. He said that such a lecture, if published, would constitute the best tract on temperance written for many years...