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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
A WHOLESOME DECISION

Altogether Independent Of any effect
that it may have upon local industries
and interests, the decision of Judge
Brill in the case against Mr.. Phillip S.
Shufeldt is to be commended warmly.
1t Is not necessary to argue the merits
Of the case, but simply to consider the
facts as they appear upon the face Of
affairs. Mr.. Shufeldt has been and
still is in entire control and manage
ment Of the affairs Of the Minnesota
Packing and Provision company, at
South ST. Paul. While in that position
he and other business associates or
ganized another corporation to engage
in the same business, and, as an indi-
vidual, he has also started. in his own
name, similar enterprise at New
Brighton. 1t is under these circum-
stances, in the belief that the business
of the South st. Paul company would
be ultimately diverted entirely from it
to others, that those interested in it
asked for the removal of Mr.. Shufeldt
and the appointment of a receiver. The
equity, as well as the law Of the case.
are admirably set forth in the follow
ing quotation from Judge Br1Il's deci-
sion:
Directors ard officers Of corporations oc-
cupy positions of trust toward their corpor-
atoms, and they are not allowed to deal with
the corporate property for their private gain
They have no right to deal with themselves
and for the corporation at the same time
and it is not justification or excuse that no
loss has resulted. They are not permitted to
occupy these inconsistent positions in which
necessarily, their own interest comes in con-
tact with their duty to their principal Re
lief against transactions of this sort without
showing of actual fraud, will always be
awarded by a court of equity at the suit of the
cestui cue trust.
1t would, indeed, be an extraordinary
rule of law or of action, if a person
holding a position of trust and author
ity in a business undertaking should
be held free at the same time to en-
gage in and even to build up rival en-
terprises There would be no safety
for corporate investment, and the
greatest wrongs might be perpetrated
under the color of law.
It Is not assumed Or asserted that
there was any intention of willfuI
wrong doing on Mr.. ShufeIdt's part
but his course has been a part of the
controversy over the location of the
packing business and the attempt to
transfer it from South St Paul to New
Brighton. The language In which the
court upholds the rights of investors
and curtails the power of directors and
officers as trustees is emphatic. The
case has been very important one and
ought to stand as a precedent for the
future to prevent such transactions as
have marked the absorption of one cor
poration by another in times past.
against the wishes and the interests Of
those Immediately concerned. If de-
cisions of the courts count for any,
thing, the unrestrained exercise of cor
porate power in this country is now
at an end.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
BUYING PROSPERITY.

A great deal of ridicule was spent,
not unjustly. during the last campaign
upon those who thought that prospect
ity was to be achieved by artificial
means and that you had only to pass
law in order to put value somewhere
that it did not exist berore But we
find precisely the same mistake made,
with far less reason or logic, by those
who were foremost in exposing that
fallacy The whole Republican press
is engaged, as the Republican majority
in congress has been, in an attempt to
fool the people into believing that they
can legislate into existence both pros
perity and profits. We find even the
Minneapolis Journal sober and sensi-
BILE as its views are upon so many
other subjects, throwing itself gleeful-
ly under the wheels of this same Jug
gernaut. 1t wants to save hun
dreds or thousands of millions
Of dollars to the people by a
method that has much less merit
than taking a 50-cent piece and
calling it a dollar. The Journal tells
US that we are paying foreign ocean
carriers about $200, 90o, 600 a year. Then
it says: 1.-THE way to stop it is not
by repeating the navigation laws and
permitting Americans to buy foreign
ships and to put them under American
registry, but to build ships to carry
our freight, 50 that the freight money
will be kept at home and contribute to
the extension Of our ship yards and
the employment of thousands more
men. The duty is sc plain that there
should be no hesitancy"
The first remarkable feature of this
is that the writer like most devotees
of paternalism, gets confused at the
outset. He mikes up the two entirely
| different propositions of encouraging
the American carrying trade and en-
couraging ship building. Possibly, he
might be able to tell us how freight
! money earned by ships that Americans
had bought, no matter where they
| found them, would go abroad. 1t seems
/ reasonably clear to us that the money
| earned by vessel will go to its own
! er. If the owners are Americans, they
will get it. We never yet heard of a.
/ man turning over voluntarily the
money made by the labor Of a horse
or steam engine, or any other COM
| modify, to some person who had not
/ any interest in 1t. simply because he
| had bought it from that person and
paid for it, Therefore, the remedy for
having our carrying trade controlled
by foreigners is precisely that which
the Journal so lightly dismisses. If our
barbarous and idiotic navigation laws
| were repealed, SO that capital could do
/ without Legislative hirdrance what it
is going 10 do. or else refuse the in
| vestment altogether. namely, buy in
| the cheapest market. it would not be
] five years bef~-A the ApoArican mer-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
ARBOR DAY.
A Gift of the state Forestry Associa-
Of ton.

To the Editor Of the. Globe
Our governor has appointed Friday the Both
of April for Arbor day Since the establish
ment of this anniversary there has never
been so promising an interest in it's observ-
ance as this year. The schools are specially
enthusiastic. Mere sentimentaIity is chang
ing to practical utility, with a view to per
manent tree growing, not only for street and
lawn ornamentatien, but in groves and wind
breaks for the prevention of floods and
drouths the economy of water for use when
needed, the immeasurabie benefits that will
thus accrue to agriculture, and for the general
beaE1y Of the state.
AS an aid to these important results. I
offer for the Forestry association, to give
100 green ash trees, one year grown to anv
teacher or student in the state who will sim
ply pay the postage of 10 cents in stamps for
mailing the trees and the Tree Planter ,"
with the understanding that these little trees
shall be planted and cared for as instructed
in the book preparatory to replanting where
wanted to stay on the school lawns. We
offer this tree because it is the hardest of
all our indigenous species. 1t is about as fast
a grower as the box elder, and is beautiful.
indeed We believe that the habit of such
culture will evolve worshipful love and de-
Tense of trees and more scholarly character
of citizenship. I respectfully ask that the
recipients report success TO me, giving ali
the necessary particulars, to be kept on rec
ord and published with credits in my reports
to the state. Address
i. o. Barrett.
Secretary of the Forestry Association, Brown
Valley MINI.
other papers please COPY.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
ELKIN's BILL DISCUSSED.
Meeting of Shipping Interests to
Talk Over Bounties.

WASHINGTON, April IA meeting Of rep
resentatlves of shipping interests was held
today in the room of the senate committed
G. A. Griscom, W. p Clyde. I. w. Hyde,
E. r. Smith, G. H. Cramp, s. S. SewalI III. p.
Booth, E. p. Bliss, Aaron Vanderbilt, d. G.
Monk, r. ]. Firth, G. III. Keep, ex-senator G.
F. Edmunds and Senators Frye, Elkins, Hanna
and Perkins The meeting was held for
the purpose Of promoting legislation looking
to the encouragement of American shipping.
There was general exchange Of views. Sem
ator Elkins' bill providing for discriminate
ing duties on goods imported in American YES
sells afforded a basis for much Of the discus
sion, but there was a want OF unanimity
of opinion upon all Of its provisions. Mr..
Griscom presided and the meeting was pri-
vate.
day by those In attendance, one Of the most
important being that Of G. III. Cramp, the
ship builder. Mr.. Cramp said that the enor-
nous revenue represented by the freight and
passenger tolls on our commerce and travel
is constantly drained out Of this country into
British. German and French pockets, while
the necessary ship building inures almost
wholly to Great Britain. He held this ia
be the principal cause of the existing fnan-
cial condition Of the United States and said
that until means were taken to keep a part
Of the $500 coo annually absorbed by for
eign ship owners no good times could come
In conclusion he suggested the following
new classification for bounties to Anle-lcaT
shipping No less than 10000 tons and "a
knots. Sc per mile not less than 5000 tons
and 20 knots, So per mile; not less than 5000
tons and 18 knots, 81; not less than 900
tons and Is knots, So. Iron and steel steam
ers, not less than IA knots, s1-50 per mile
Senator Edmunds who was present as legal
adviser, took a prominent part in the pro-
ceedings Of the day, his opinion being called
for at various times. He was asked amona
other things, II the disseminating duties pro-
posed In the Elkins bill would not be in VIC
laton OF treaties with many foreign powers
and replied that they would be. He said, how
ever, that the treaties could be abrogated by
law. by the passage Of a joint resolution
giving years notice to the governments with
which the treaties had been made.
Several amendments were proposed to the
Elkin bill. One Of them provides method
by which ships owned by citizens of the
United States and now under the foreign
flag may come under the American flag
The day was, however, devoted more IA
a general discussion rather than to an eff
fort to reduce conclusions to a concrete form
Much of the talk on the lines Of adont-
ing a policy which would unite all podti-
cal parties in support Of some measure which
would result In keeping at home the 5000
O00,O00 which, 1t was declared is now annual
iy paid to the owners of foreign vessels for
carrying American goods. After a general
discussion a committee was appointed RI
consider this serious question and to unite
II possible, upon policy to recommend "a
the government as a remedy for the existing
situation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
ExTERMINATE THE scoRcHER.

No one is more indignant than the
wheelmen of this city at the two acct
dents occurring in close succession, and
due to the criminal recklessness Of the
scorcher. He is first in the field, and
worst, as usual. If all the bicycle rid
ers were on the street it is probable
that this fiend would look out for him
self little more closely But in these
early spring days, when a majority of
riders either have not taken out their
wheels or ride them only occasionally,
the scorcher thinks that he can escape
observation and elude pursuit We had
hoped that this ruffianly race was ex-
tinct, and that the fear Of the law, if
not the restraint of decency, had put
an end to reckless riding in ST. Paul
Since it has not, the remedy must be
city who must apply it. It is to be
hoped sincerely that the authorities
will not follow the useless and unjust
policy of Furnishing all the men and
in a futile attempt to reach, by this
| means, the half dozen or so who threat
en- life and limb. 1t is easy enough, of
course, for the council to cut off the
riders of the wheel from their. accus-
toned privileges, and to hem them in
and weigh them down with restrictions
that will take from their pastime a
| great share of it's pleasure. But this
will not aid in the least to detect or
prevent the practice called scorching.
A man who prefers to go at breakneck
speed and take the chances Of killing
somebody will not be deferred because
there is a law which forbids other
people from riding in reasonable ways.
The thing to do is to get after the
scorcher himself and subject him to
such punishment as he will not quickly
forget. A duty rests upon the body of
Wheelmen of this city in this matter
which we know that they are ready to
perform. The league Of American
wheelmen have always been anxious
for the apprehension Of scorchers. They
have large membership now that is
| ready to be sworn into the service, and
the scorcher will have less mercy at
their hands than if a staIwart police
man were to get a good grip of him.
Inasmuch as the community has been
shocked by the outrages recently oc-
curing, and as the safety Of the public
on the one side and the rights and
privileges Of bicycle riders on the other
are threatened, we urge upon every
wheelman the duty Of constituting him
self, with or without public authority.
an official charged with the extermina-
| ton Of the scorcher Let every man
who bestrides a wheel keep his eye out
for the reckless rider, charge upon him,
| ride him down and pummel into him,
| if necessary, some regard for the rights
of others The wheelmen must take
this matter into their own hands. They
| can apply a remedy where the law is
| impotent, and they are willing to do it.
1t cannot be accomplished too swiftly
| or too severely.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

Frank L. Stoffels yesterday swore out a
complaint against his brother, Joseph Stof-
fels, on the charge OF assault and battery.
Charles Young and Frank O'Connor, boys
under fifteen years Of age, were arrested
by Officer Mccormick at Seventh and John
streets. last evening, on the charge Of dis
orderly conduct. O'Connor was allowed his
liberty. it learned that his widowed
mother, living at 316 Pine street, who has
long been i'll with consumption, was not ex-
pected to live through the night.
Annie Johnson, claiming to live in Racine
Wis, applied at the central police station last
night for assistance in recovering a satchel
containing all of her worldly possessions,
which was stolen from her yesterday after
noon. The satchei contained cloak, several
dresses, articles of jewelry and S. in money.
Miss Johnson describes the man to whom she
handed it about 40 years of age medium
build, dark hair and eyes and wearing dark
clothes. The case was placed in the hands
Of Detectives Gruber and Murnane.
w. D. Payne, of Hoboken, Mass, has writ
ten Chief Goss for information concerning
his sister, CT whom he has lost track and
who is supposed to be in st. Paul. The
womans maiden name, by which she may be
known, was Ella Payne and she is about
% years Of age. She was originally from
Sandy Creek, Oswego county New York
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
WANT TO GERRYMANDER.

The serious attention of the legis-
lature. and Of the Ramsey county dele
cation in particular, seems to be benz
just now upon getting Up a gerryman-
der of the state under the name Of a
reapportionment that Will suit party
and individual interests. 1t is a re-
markable and a disgraceful thing that
the demands Of justice and the inter
ests of the people should be showed
out of sight whenever a reapportior-
ment scheme is under way. We are
instructed by learning that Ramsey
county delegation is ''all torn up" moi
because there are rival general prin-
clples at stake. but because each mem
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08

Der Of it thinks that the new district
ought to be so cut out as to do him
the most good. Mr.. Ozmun has his
plan, and Mr.. McGill has his plan
and, If the figures by +. S. Bryant"
can be relied upon, he has his plan
Nothing seems TO be thought Of except
the construction of districts that
shall be, first, surely Republican; and,
second, so built up that the particular
individual most interested thinks he
can carry them himself at the next
election. Enter any committee room
or talk with any representative on
this subject, and you will find him fig
uring solely on party majorities and
how to so combine them by wards or
townships or counties as to bring the
biggest political advantage to himself
and party. IS
If the Republican politicians at
work can have their way, Minnesota
will have gerrymander Of the most
approved description. 1t will be well,
however, for the mathematicians and
geometricians who are at work on
their able schemes to remember that
the courts of the different states have
shown themselves, of late, decidedly
inclined to suppress the gerrymander;
and that, if they carry out some of
the outrageous plans now under con :
sideration, the supreme court Of Min
nesota will not be found lacking in at
tention to duty
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
BURIED THEIR FATHER
Judge and Hon. Il. II. Sanborn Home
From New Hampshire.

Judge Sanborn and his brother, Hon.
e. P Sanborn. have returned from
the funeral of their father, Hon. Henry
F. Sanborn, of Epson, n. H The
Boston Journal Of the I'd inst. contains
the following obituary Of the deceased:
Hon. Henry F. Sanborn, Of EPSON, N. H.,
died OF heart disease at his late residence in
princeton, Mass, on Friday. March 26, 1897.
he was born at EPSON on Feb rs, 1919, and
was brother Of Gen. John B. Sanborn, of
St. Paul. Mimi. who, together with two
sisters. Mrs. John G. Pearson and Mrs.
Henry ID. Smith, survive him. In his earlier
years he fitted himself for and spent two
years at Dartmouth college, when the con-
hnement Of a students life compelled him
10 abandon his professional career and re-
turn to the farm. He lived on Sanborns
father to in his family, for 80 years. until,
in 1882, he sold it to his brother and sons
and removed to Princeton, where he re-
sided until his death. man Of lofty char
acter, sterling integrity and rare intellectual
power, he commanded the respect and esteem
or his fellow citizens wherever he lived.
During his residence in Epson he was re-
peatedly elected selectman of his native
town. was chosen representative in 1855, and
twice elected to the senate of the state of
New Hampshire, when that body consisted
OF but twelve men. In his later residence
in Princeton he repeatedly chosen mem
Der OF the school board and had been for
many years treasurer of the trustees Of the
Goodnow Memorial building. In his earlier
life he taught the old central school in Ep-
som, and many man traces to the inspira-
ton Of his presence and character the origin
OF his ambition and success; nor did he fail
to inspire the members of his family
with some of his worthy ambitions and
marvellous energy. He leaves surviving him
his beloved wife, Eunice Davis Sanborn,
who has been his daily companion for more
than fifty years and their three children,
Hon. Walter H. Sanborn, of st. Paul, Mimi,
United States circuit judge Of the Eighth
judicial district; Hon. Edward P. Sanborn,
member Of the city council OF ST. Paul and
Of the law firm Of John B. G. E. P. Sanborn,
and Mrs. Hattie A, wife of DR.. William B.
Coggswell, Of Stratford Conn., Though not
unmindful Of the earthly honors which fell
thickly upon him, his faith and hope through
all the years Of his active and useful life
were in Christ, and he died as he lived, a
III md TINS hriS
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
RECOVERED THE BODY.
Mrs. DeIphfne BeIac's Remains
Found i'm the River Here


Found i'm the River Here.
The body Of Mrs. Delphine Belac,
who drowned herself in the Mississippi
river at Minneapolis last Saturday
evening, was found in the back water
caused by the flood near the foot of
Duke street yesterday. John Rubicek,
living at 400 James street, discovered
an object floating in the water which
attracted his attention by it's likeness
to a human form and the presence of
wearing apparel inflated above the
surface. Procuring a boat and a piece
Of rope he secured the body and notified
the police of his find. Coroner Nelson
viewed the body and ordered it re-
moved to the undertaking rooms of
Mccarthy & Donnelly. The Minneapo-
lis authorities were appraised of the
finding of the body with the probabili-
ty of its being that Of Mrs. Belac.
Later relatives of the dead woman full
ly identified the body and 1t was taken
to Minneapolis for burial last night.
Mrs. Belac was SiXty-nine years old
and for some time previous to her
tragic death, resided with her married
daughter in Minneapolis. She was
thought to be partially demented.
Saturday evening she rushed out of
her home on Nicollet island and jump
ed into the river, allowing the swift
current to carry her beneath the sur
face. Search for the body at the point
of drowning proved futile and had not
the eddy carried it into the quiet water
where it was found, it is likely that
it would never have been recovered
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
FIGURES VERIFIED.

The report made yesterday to the
senate by the railroad and warehouse
commission verifies the criticisms made
by the G o b a short time ago upon
the figures submitted in connection
with the Douglas bill Of recent memory.
1t shows that the statistics previously
put out comparing the railroad business
in Minnesota and in Iowa were incor-
rect and misleading. The official state
ment Of the railroad commission places
the mileage in Iowa at S,4S6.36 miles,
and in Minnesota 5,990.7S, being an ex-
cess of 2,495.5Ss miles FOR Iowa. The
gross earnings in Iowa for the year
1895 were $35, 1885,, $40, and for the same
period in Minnesota were $30,952, 220,
the excess Of receipts in Iowa being
nearly $5,000,000. I The gross freight
earnings per mile in this state were
$5,16 and in Iowa S4,222. AS noted in
our own article on the subject, the
commission states that there are sew :
eral railroads in Iowa with an aggre-
no report Of their freight earnings.
If those not reported earned in the
same ratio as those that did, the total
freight earnings in the two states
would be almost identical. The same
fact of incomplete reports raises a diff
ficulty about comparing the total num-
Der Of tons carried. Reports from the
Iowa system, however, excepting only
23O miles, show a tonnage of Is, 1872, $50
tons, while the tonnage of Minnesota
was 18,530,130, the business of Mime
sofa being 4,747,577 tons in excess Of
that Of Iowa.
This is all the information that the
commission of this state has been able
to obtain by q study of the reports
OF the Iowa commission, and by per-
sonal application to. it for facts. The
figures furnished make an interesting
comparison, and will correct officially
the erroneous impression gathered from
the incorrect and misleading stato-
ments that have acquired wide circu-
latiOn,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08
TAKES A PASSING SHOT.
At Newspapers Which Are a Dis
credit to journalism.

Speaking OF its great Easter number, con-
s.sting of ninety-two pages, and of which
500, 200 copies were sold the New York Her
aid gives the sensational journals of New
York body blow in the following:
The theory that journalistic triumph means
a lowering of thought toward any ignomini-
Gus level or pandering to- some momentary
baseness of the popular mind; that the editor
must seek the sewer rather than the stream
that gain is synonymous with infamy. finds
no surer refutation than in the fact that the
first of American journals is first in dignity
and integrity. We have been content to print
the news and tell the truth, taking from cur
rent effort and comment something of their
illumination and fire. The story of each
day is told as history was written by Hero
dotus-truth absolute truth without euuivo-
cation, truth without fear. In THIS will be
found the moral high water mark Of modern
journalism.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-08

nection with those obtained by our
own Investigations in home sources of
information, they leave Mr.. Weyer-
haeuser's plea for tax of 81 on Cana
dian lumber without a peg to hang
on Or a leg to stand on. The contra
dictions also leave his ethics in a very
demoralized condition. What he asks
for is license to take what he is not
entitled to, and that mostly from men
who cannot afford to have anything
taken from them,