In Table X, page 211, the relative numbers and percentages are arranged in the _order of magnitude_, and this arrangement is illuminating in its display of what the Immigration Commission and the writers who have taken their cue therefrom have interpreted as “civic and political interest” exhibited in relative desire for citizenship. With the exception of Italy the races from the sources of largest recent immigration show a higher proportion naturalized than the proportion they represented in the population. It can fairly be said that the desire to become citizens is as evident among these immigrants of the new races as among those of the earlier, entirely leaving out of consideration the length of residence which operates in favor of the older immigrants. HOW DID THESE PETITIONERS FARE? How did these applicants for citizenship fare? However much they may have desired citizenship, these of the “new immigration” and the “old”--did they get it? Did they pass the examinations? And as regards the reasons for denial of those who were rejected, how did the “recent” races account for themselves in respect of those matters which really go to the questions of moral and intellectual fitness? Well, to begin with, the percentage of all denials (3,033) among these more than 26,000 petitioners was 11.5--almost exactly that (11.2) of the whole United States during the entire period of eleven years, 1908-18, as shown by the reports of the Commissioner of Naturalization. Here appears a compilation analyzing _all_ the denials during the period 1908-18. TABLE XVII COMPARISON OF CAUSES OF DENIAL FOR THE YEARS 1908-18 AND 1913-19 FROM COMMISSIONER OF NATURALIZATION REPORTS, AND DENIALS OF 26,284 PETITIONERS STUDIED