Woodrow Wilson to Charles P. Caldwell

I beg that you will pardon my not having replied sooner to your letter of April nineteenth. The coming of the two foreign delegations has crowded my days beyond measure and I have found it impossible to keep up with my correspondence.

It is now, I am sorry to say, too late to reply to the questions put to me in your letter, but I hope that you will understand why it does not seem possible to me to accept any compromise in the matter of the pending army bill.

I think, in the first place, that you are under a wrong impression as to the time it will take to get the draft process into action. In the second place, I am heartily opposed to having two classes of men in the service and seeming to create some moral difference between them.

In haste, with sincere regard,
Very truly yours,

Woodrow Wilson


Hon. Chas. Pope Caldwell,
House of Representatives.