The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-09
SENATOR WARNER ID AID PRESIDENT Defines His Attitude on Great
 American Issues GOV. HOCH ISSUES WARNING Unless Something Is Done He Predicts That Tide of Socialism Will Sweep
 Over the Whole
 Country.
GOV. HOCH ISSUES WARNING

Kansas City, November S.-United States Senator-elect Warner, the first republican, to he elected to the Senate from Mis- so,,ri since Carl Schurz in 1869, was to- night rendered a farewell banquet at the Midland hotel in this city. SIX hunoreo republicans from Missouri and Kansas attended and toasts were responded to py several prominent politicians of this state' Gardiner Lathrop of Chicago, general counsel of the Atchison, Topeka and Sam ta Fe railway, acted as toastmaster.
 Senator Warner spoke to the toast, 'Na- tional Issues," said in part
 "rhe demand of the hour in official life is intellectual honesty, g. demand for Of ficials to act right, as well as think right; officials who hew to the line or duty as God gives them light to see their duty, letting the chips fall where they may. Today the man of all men In official life who leads the column Of intellectuai honesty Is the President of the United States. I shall enter the Senate as the personal friend of the President, as an adrnirer of his stalwart Americanism, and of his rugged official courage. No other
  people as Roosevelt trusts them, and no other President has the people trusted as they trust Roosevelt.
 His efforts to secure legislation cloth ing the interstate commerce commission with authority necessary to insure a souare deal between common carrier and shippers have my unqualified support"
 Senator Warner speaking of recent in- surance examinations, said:
 Watch Life Insurance Companies.
 Life insurance companies are to a great extent the savings banks of the people. and should by legislation be plaeed under strict surveillance as na- tional banks, and the misappropriation or embezzlement of funds by their officials should be declared to be felony pun ishable by imprisonment in the peniten- tiary.
 Speaking of the tariff question. Senator Warner said:
 "Grounded as I am in the protective to any schedule"
 Senator Warner said that Congress should take no backward step in the reclamation of arid lands, declared strong ly for navy that should be second to none in the world" and favored the ad- mission immediately of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state.
 Warning Against Socialism.
 Governor E. W. Hoch of Kansas. who responded to the toast, Kansas Message to Missouri, said in the course of his remarks: @l
 'I want to say to you. not as an alarm ist, but as a slight contributor to the American awakening, that unless we find some effectual remedy for the control of the great trusts and corporations in the interest of all people a tidal wave of so- cialism will sweep over this country one of these days that will do incalculable damage. It will not come to stay if 1t comes at all, because It's wrecks which strew the pathway of human history for 5000 years, attests the fact that it is not stayer. To avert such a calamity, con- servative corporation people as well as the wisest and the most distinguished statesmen should bend and are bending avery energy"