Dangerous Immigrants From Europe Have Flooded U.S., Says Judge Boyd, April 17, 1919

From the editorial page of The Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., April 17, 1919, J.D. Kernodle, Editor. The judge feared the recent immigrants had brought dangerous ideas. According to the U.S. Census, the United States received 13,515,886 immigrants between 1910 and 1920. Where were these dangerous immigrants coming from?

Europe—11,810,115 (But only 2,573,534 of these were from Judge Boyd’s desirable British Isles)

Asia—191,484

Africa—3,992

Oceania—11,450 (9,000 of which were from Australia)

Latin America—279,514

Central America—223,651

South America—8,228

Canada—1,209,717

Region or County Not Reported—9,614 (which included 6,927 who were born at sea)

Judge Boyd Takes a Swing at Bill Hohenzollern and Other Evils

Judge Boyd held court at Charlotte last week. During the war and since on opening court, he has rarely failed to give expression to fervid patriotic utterances.

On this occasion he is thus reported:

Judge James E. Boyd in opening Federal court paid his respects to “Colonel Billy” Hohenzollern, the Turk and bolshevism. He expressed regret that “Colonel Billy” had not been captured and brought to America as an adjunct to Ringling’s circus; that the Turk had not been completely expelled from Europe; and that the Stars and Stripes had not eventually been planted over Berlin.

Judge Boyd made a wondrous summary of the mighty forces that are at work in the world today, constructive and destructive. He declared that the world’s crisis is not yet over, and that it behooves true Americans everywhere to be watchmen on the towers of liberty looking out for the first out-cropping of danger. As to bolshevism he warned his audience that this evil is trying to gain foothold in America. “It is here,” he said, “because of the great pre-war influx of foreign immigration. But I believe that there is enough real American blood left in the country to save it from this evil. 

Especially in this section is this danger at a minimum because we are nearly all descendants of the men of colonial days, of the pure English stock. This has been a Providence-favored land. Even when they fell out and brother fought brother in the Civil war, they fought as Americans. It is not necessary to send a true American to a war college to make a soldier out of him. Just show him that his country has been wronged, or that his rights have been trampled upon and he shoulders his gun and is ready to fight.”