Monday, Nov. 02, 1925
Sons
Undergraduates at Cambridge attended a debate before their famed forensic Union. And from London even the mightiest lent an ear to the harangues of three Cambridge youths anent the conduct of British affairs by the Baldwin Government.
One was young Joynson-Hicks, son of the present ultra-Tory Home Secretary. He warmly defended the Government.
Ons was Arthur Henderson Jr., son of the famed Labor leader who was Home Secretary in Ramsay MacDonald's Government. He mildly disparaged the present regime.
The last was Oliver Baldwin. On him the fact that he is a son of the leader of the Tory party weighed lightly. He set out to flay his father's Government.
By way of hamstringing the meagre success which Pater Baldwin has achieved in dealing with unemployment, ha wrought upon his hearers' feelings by recounting the suicide of a workless former soldier, and concluded: "He is only one of the many men who, during the last few months, have been sacrificed on the altar of the Government, which is far more concerned with the profits made out of industry than with the lives of its own people."
Later, Debater Baldwin scored a triumph when the meeting rejected a vote of confidence in Premier Baldwin's Government, by a vote of 303 to 220.