New Britain herald., 1918-03-05
PACIFIST DOCTOR
 ATTACKED WILSON
Believed Germany Would Win
 and Is Placed Under Arrest


 been one of the most active of the peace-at-any-pri advocates, and who has recently caused to be pub llshed a document in which he urges that the United States enter an imme- date peace with Germany which country, he maintains, IS victorious and can never be defeated by the AL lies, was arrested by agents of the department of justice yesterday after noon- Dr. Robinson, who lives at 2 Mount Morris Park, West has been spreading much of his propaganda in the form of open letters to President Wilson, urging an immediate peace.
 pr. Robinson, who says that he is the biographer of pr. Abraham Jacobi, and that he has edited all of pr. Jacobi's books on medical sub jects, is charged by the government with violating the Espionage act through the circulation of articles which, in many instances it is alleged. are SeditiOus in nature. The phvsi- elan, who came to the United States from Russia more than thirty years ago, says that he is pro-aFly, but se- cret service men say that statement does not appear to be borne out by close reading of the numerous arti- cles he has written since the United States entered the war;
 He was arraigned before United States missioner Hitchcock and held in $5,000 bail for hearing on March 13. He promptly produced the $5,000 in cash. Morris HillQuit, late Socialist candidate for Mayor is his lawyer.
 Editor of 'TThc Voice.
 Dr. Robinson is the editor of the magazine known as A Voice in the Wilderness which was recently ex- cluded from the mails, and in part the governments case against him is based on articles which have appeared in it.
 Tn one of the articles which is the subject of Federal study he states that his heart is "bleeding'' for France, yet he dds, |I say with every quivering fibre of my soul that the sending of d conscripted army of our children to France is a fearful crime"
 As I stated in my letter to Pres ident Wilson," he continues, we have no moral right to murder q millin of our children in order 10 save Q million French or British children, for we have no right to force anybody to sacrifice his life for the life of another. But, worse than this, in sending an army Of our sons to France, we are not dOin2 France a service # We are cnrOura: :ging her to persist in a war which, even with outside aid, cannot but prove, if long continued, suicidal to ner. * % But to force people to commit mur- der, and to be murdered ir a cause in which they are not interested. or which they consider distinctly unjust, is a great crime. The Romanoifs at their worst were guilty of no greater crime"
 In the course of one of his letters to President Wilson, Qr Robinson, among other things said:
 Elected Under False PrctenscS.
 "I did not vote for you the first time because I did not know you suf- ficiently-I take my voting seriously but I voted for you the second time and I influenced a good many others to vote for you. I will say, en pas sant, that if any President was ever elected under false pretcnses that President was you * " What it was that caused your sudden complete volte face on Feb. is something, which we radicals are still unable to comprehend. The mob may be fed on phrases but We know that nOth- ing happened between Jan. 22 and l Feb. which either necessitated or I Justified our entrance into the war. "Gexmanys blockade or barred zone was surely no justification for it. You know as we all do that England was 1 the first to establish a blockade and | to interfere with our mail and with 1 our commerce. The difference be- 1 tween Eng1and's and Germany's in 1 tcrfercnce with us was not a matter of essence but of meth od.'' When agents of the department 1 seized the effects of Dr. Robinson l they found a manuscript, the proof | of which had just been returned for l correction by the printer. This docu- | ment was dated Feb. 26, and in it he urged immediate peace with "victori- | ous'' Germany. He said he wrote the 1 article at 2 o'clock in the morning. l The article is addressed to his faith l fuI and patient friends"
 After denouncing Germany for in l vading Russia after the breaking off ! of the first barley with the Bolsheviki 1 peace commissioners, pr. Robinson in 1 that article said:
 l "NOW, it seems to me that only an out and out imbecile can still believe
 in the possibility of Germanys defeat | on the battlefield. Does any one in l his right senses still believe in the l possibility of Germany's defeat? This
 being so what is to be done? This ! is to be done: Make peace as soor
 order.'