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Show Annie Desai.t. Annie Besant has given up her projected pro-jected American visit, and the reason for this change of plan is interesting. Mrs. Besant is a Socialist, and is interested above all things in the organization of the wage earners. She wished to study the condition of the working people on this side of the water, but has become convinced that social theories have no such future here as in England. The thinking mind in England, she writes to a Brooklyn lady, is more philosophical, more liberal, than in this country, where we are all absorbed in a scramble for dollars, and while money and work are plentier here because of our rapid growth, a Socialist has nothing to learn from us, and the chances of a satisfactory settlement settle-ment of old, old questions seem to her quite as good at home. Detroit News. |