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Show THE POLICE OF LONDON. They Keep Great Metropolis Comparatively Compara-tively Free From Crime. Tho annual report of tho chief of tho metropolitan pollco of London sent to tho homo secretary Is Interesting reading. read-ing. London has an area (exclusive of tho city proper) of 688 square miles, Inclines to apprehend thnt tho Social-'t Social-'t gains aro more than a passing phe--monon. "Public ownership of pub-r pub-r utilities," he observes, is a phraso wnlch is beginning to occur with significant sig-nificant frcquonco In party platforms. And It Is modified Socialism, which may easily prove tho entering wedgo for a greator or less subversion of tho oxistlng economic and social system. The ono paramount duty of thoso who would avert this result Is such governmental gov-ernmental action as will thwart such trusts as seek to becomo monopolies. Pittsburg Press. |