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Show Burglar and the Cops. At first sight ouo would suppose that the class above all others that would hail with delight a general strike of police would be the burglars. Curiously Curi-ously enough this is not. so, says the London Mercury, Tho professional burglar is dead against such a strike; for, as he correctly reasons, though tho police ceased to protect property, property prop-erty would not thereby be left unprotected. unpro-tected. In fact, it would be protected all the more by the owners themselves, and the burglar's special knowledge, acquired from local observation of the habits of tho police, would for the time being be useless. In tho police the burglar knows exactly what he has to cope with. When every householder is his own policeman, however, it is different, differ-ent, for the burglar is quite ignorant of the weapons that may bo waiting to roceive him la uy given case. |