52. Per Cent Circulation of the German Press in nine states 388 53. Socialist Vote for President in nine states from 1900 to 1916 389 54. Membership of the Nonpartisan League by states in December, 1918 398 55. Distribution of Petitions Studied, by Courts 429 56. Sex and Marital Condition of Petitioners 430 57. Petitioners’ Children Under twenty-one years of age 431 58. Age of Petitioners at Arrival and Time Elapsing between twenty-one years of age (or later arrival) and Petition, 1913-1914 432 59. Number and Per Cent of Petitions Denied for each Cause, by Courts _Facing_ 432 60. Number of Petitions Denied for each Cause, by Country of Birth _Facing_ 432 61. Distribution of Petitioners, by Country of Birth and Courts _Facing_ 432 62. Distribution of Petitioners, Length of Time from Arrival to Petition, by Country of Birth _Facing_ 432 63. Distribution of Petitions, by Occupation and Courts 433 64. Average Number of Years from Date of Arrival to Date of Petition, by Occupation 434 65. Number of Petitioners, by Country of Birth and Occupation _Facing_ 434 66. Ratio between Naturalization Petitions filed in 1913-1914 and Total Foreign Born White Males ten years of age and over in 1910, by Occupation for seven cities _Facing_ 434 LIST OF DIAGRAMS DIAGRAM PAGE 1. Average interval before filing petition after attainment of twenty-one years (or time of arrival, if arriving after twenty-one years) for petitioners arriving at ages of one to fourteen, fifteen to twenty, and twenty-one years and over 242 2. Average interval before filing petition after arrival at age twenty-one or over by races. The bars which are in black represent countries from which the subject people constituted almost entirely the immigration to this country 245 INTRODUCTION