The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-03
THE REASON OF THE ROW.
JUST HOW 1T HAPPENED,
"The Stars In Their Courses" Re-
SpOnSible.
The Denver Road SAYS:

The Denver Road says:
why do people find it so nard to
| agree at this time?" is question we
put to an old gray-headed student of
Madam Blavatsky
Easy enough" he replied. II can
explain it to you in no time. In the
first place you notice the impossibility
| of getting conventions everywhere to
conduct their business peaceably. 1t
| is no fault of theirs. A. p. AS get to-
gether and quarrel, Catholics quarrel
in their meetings, Republicans squab-
BILE and light over their nominations,
Popu lists get together and fight over
tickets. Democrats scrap in conven
tions, church congregations find them
selves split up the back with pickering
and contentious, men and women find
it hard to get along moothly-every-
body seems to be disturbed. All this,
my friend, can be accounted for on the
astrological grounds of planetary con-
ditions.'
We held up our hands and expressed
our doubts.
NO." said he, 'you are mistaken.
Just read the works of every author
who has had anything to say about
the causes and conditions that led up
to the French revolution. The plane
tary conditions that existed then ex.
ist today. Every writer who treats
upon the subject, all make notice of
the highly eXcitable condition of the
people and the difficulty with which
organized bodies conducted their busi-
ness. All these authors speak of the
disposition of everybody to wrangle
and fight on the slightest provoca-
tion."
Well, possibly our friend is correct.
One thing we do know, we never had
SO much trouble in our whole life to
keep out of fights as we are experience
ing at this time.
We doff our tile to the psychic fac
tors OF civilization. Ring up the cur
tain.
Well this accounts for it, We never
could understand why the State Cen
tral Committee jumped upon ourself
and the REPREsENTATIvE without
the slightest provocation. 1t was
what the great poet calls ''the skyie
Influences" Mars and Venus and
Uranus and Saturn had them by the
seat OF their pants and the scruff of
their necks and pitched them into col
lision with us, whether they would or
not.
But seriously,-as Prof. Falb and
Blanton Duncan showed in this paper,
some time snce,-all the planets are
nearly in line, on one side of the
globe, pulling against this poor little
earth, which is hanging on its own or
bit by its front teeth. If it loses it's
grip we will go plunging into the sun;
and the REPRESENTATIVE will have
to suspend publication; and the silver
question will be settled permanently:
and wise man will amount to no
more than a fOol,-very often he
doeSn amount to any more now. But
as it is the planets, double-tcaming on
US, have pluckcd aside the garments of
our atmosphere in most dsgraceful
fashion: have stolen our moisture: and
agitated old mother earth with tidal
waves, earthquakes, cyclones and
dreadful fires while the Republicans
have carried Maine and Vermont, and
the Dutch remain in possession of
Holland; and Knute Nelson and his
railroad commissioner, General Beck
er, are fighting each other with such
savage hatred and fierce vtuperation
that there is danger of breach of the
peace !! In the name Of humanity let
this bloody battle stop.
And, strange to say, there is re-
viyal of ancient beliefs that were once
regarded as absurd supcrstitions.
Palmistry, the study OF ones fu-
ture by the lines of the hand, has now
quite a following; and the last Arena
contains a curious article upon the
astrological horoscope of Grover
Cleveland; going to show that Grover
couldn't help making a fool of him
self, any more than our State Central
Committee could. 1t was written in
| the stars.
Could it be that these ancient be-
| liefs came from civilization higher
| than our own; and as we rise we
gradually resume possession Of them?
Or is the human family necessarily as
SHINE? Who shall say? Let Us hear
| from the State Central Committee
They are qualified to speak. l. D.