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Show GO AHEAD WITH THE LOCAL COMMITTEE OF SAFETY Without waiting the outcome of the hearing of the charges against Myron A. Smith, accused of black mailing, the best men of this community should proceed to organize a com mittee of safety In order to doubly assure all citizens that blackmailing and the violonce of the blackhander will stop in Ogden The city and county should lead off In this movement by offering rewards re-wards and setting aside sufficient funds to provide, independent of what the committee of safety might do, for a long campaign of trailing down the fiend6. More families than one are considering con-sidering the advisability of leaving Ogden because of the state of terror in which they have been kept by the repeated threats of porsonal Injury. Out of self-protection, Ogden must act, If this state of affairs 1b not to continue until irreparable damage has been done We do not want a vigilance committee com-mittee or anything suggesting mob rule, but we do need a thoroughly aroused public sentiment, crystallized Into action by a committer of prominent promi-nent citizens that will see to It there is no cessation In the hunt for the bandits until they are caught |