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Show I If anybody has reason to hate aim H detest any particular spot on oirth, U the two young Scotchmen, William II1! and Alexander McWhirter, have rca- Ison to hate and detest Salt Lake. As visitors they came to sec Salt Lakt with $10,000 of hard earned money in their pockets. They had been here only a few days when they fell among thieves and were robbed of practically practical-ly all their money. Those whose duty it was to protect the lives and property prop-erty of citizens and strangers joined with the thieves and shared in the proceeds of the robbery,- and then turned round and laughed at t heir victims. The official organ of the city government made sport of them, held them up to public contumely and dubbed them "suckers from Scotland," who deserved no better than to be robbed because they were decent, straightforward young men unac-ij' unac-ij' quaintcd with the ways of thugs, .j thieves and vagabonds. The young ,j men located in this city and started a little business, but the city govcrn- I incut or more properly speaking, mis- 1 government, continued to .persecute them and annoy them in mean dis- ,, reputable ways. Only a few days ago j a minion of the city government i caused them to be hailed into court on what appears to be a trumped up I I charge that they were conducting I . their business in an unsanitary man- f ncr. Not satisfied with robbing them I of their money the officials still pur- i sue them and seek to break up the V little business of these two unoffend- 1 I ing strangers. |