The Ocala Evening Star

The Mexicans have called our bluff, and found it nothing but a bluff. A few months ago, it was announced from Washington that firing across the border by the greasers was to be put a stop to; that our troops would fire in return. Two or three days ago, a Mexican army led by Villa swooped down on Agua Prieta on the border and held by another Mexican army under one of Carranza's generals. In the American town of Douglas, Ariz., right across the border, was a large force of United States troops under command of General Thomas F. Davis. Villa's troops attacked Carranza's, and Mexican bullets were soon falling thick in the American town. An American was wounded, and General Davis sent a request to the Mexicans to divert their fire. They did not divert it, and for hours the people of Douglas and the American soldiers skulked behind cover that did not prevent the Mexican bullets from finding an occasional mark. Altogether, eight Americans were wounded, and not one shot was fired in return. Mr. Wilson doubtless has some good reason, in his own mind, why he allows his country to be insulted and compels his fellow citizens to be set up as targets for greasers to shoot at, while the hands of the men who are able and anxious to defend them are tied by his orders, but we don't think his reason will appeal to any of his countrymen who are more than 50 per cent manhood.