The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-20

nounced some weeks ago that single
term In the upper branch Of Congress
would be enough for him. has aocom-
pifshed during his service q thing for
the people in the southern part of
his State that doubtless makes him
popular out that way but folks liz
other sections OF this great and glori-
what he did. More than any one else
In the Senate. Mr.. Flint is RESPONSE
Bile for the excessive duties placed upon
citrous fruits.
The high prices prevailing for lem
ons and that are likely to prevail
for years to come, unless there Is a
real reform in the schedules. are due
to the rate OF duty fixed In the Payne
Aldrich bill. When this measure was
pending, II was charged that the duty
on lemons was already largely pro-
hibitory, and that SUCH an additional
favor would give the so-called lemon
trust OF California q grip on the mar
ket for which the people of the United
States would have to pay dearly. While
this scheme was being fixed up. how
ever, the Florida Senators proved they
were no slouches, either, for they man
aged to have pineapples included, and
IN the face of the fact that they act
and vote generally with the Demo-
cratic party. The pineapple duty hits
the extensive canning factories OF
Baltimore and other Eastern ciies
hard. and the Maryland Senator'S fair
iy snorted in their opposition to the
proposed heavy duty on a fruit that
L. nut ND so extensively for the use OF
the working classes
Mr.. Flint's announcement that ne -
compelled to quit the Senate because
he Is a poor man and cannot aHofd
to remain in public life. serves to em-
phasize the point that the Sehaie ~
no longer the millionaire club that II
was twenty years or so ago. inaeeo,
the millionaire Senators have been
dropping out faster by far than they
can be recruited. A quarter of GEN.
fury ago, none but millionatres ap-
peared to have any chance OF being
elected to the Senate from California.
That was the period when the STAN
fords. the MiIlers and the George
Hearsts. all men OF millions. managed
to occupy the Senatorial seats from
the chief commonwealth OF the "a
ciffc slope. Mr.. Stanford cut no great
figure as a Senator so far as enter
Inr into discussions was concerned,
but one who was able to amass such
a fortune had business ability to make
n foreeful worker on committees hav-
ing before II measures Of interest TO
commerce He was generous enough
TO found a great university which was
named for his only child and son. and
thus returned to the public much
OF the money his enemies and rivals
insisted he had questionably wrung
from the people
Calls Haiti On Extrnvaganee.
When Senator Miller died there was
a Congressional funeral which for
pomp and the spending of money
eclipsed anything of the sort ever
heard of In a plain republic. 1t had
the effect of calling a halt on such ex-
travagance.
The late Senator Hearst. who was
the father of the owner of the string
of newspapers from New York to Cat
ifornia, was the only Democratic mil
lionaire California has ever sent 10
the upper branch of Congress. In his
time he was considered an exceptional
expert in mining In which pursuit he
amassed the fortune that has enabled
william Randolph Hearst to start as
many newspapers as he likes, and
through which he Is supposed to have
sunk many : millions before he got
some OF his publications ON really
paying basis
The late Senator stephen Mallory
White was another Democratic Sen
ator from California. but he had no
money to speak of. but what he lack
ed IN purse he made up in ability, for
during his service at washington he
was regarded as about the best
equipped man intellectually that HIS
State has ever sent to Washington.