In this table there are 14 countries listed whose per cent of denials exceeds that for all countries. Of these only four supply the “new” immigration. And of the seven showing a lower than 11.5 per cent denials, five constitute the “new” immigration. This would point to greater success on the part of the new races in attaining their naturalization papers. The qualifying fact here, as elsewhere, is that more than twice as many petitioners belong to the “new” races as to the “old.” The two causes of denial showing the largest per cents for the country as a whole and for most countries are “want of prosecution” and the invalidity of their “old-law” declaration. That so large a proportion of immigrants have taken the trouble to take almost the last steps toward citizenship and then fail by default is symptomatic of waste somewhere along the line. This condition seems to prevail among both the “old” and “new” peoples. AS REGARDS “IMMORAL CHARACTER” For some of the less mechanical causes of denial, let us segregate and arrange the countries in order of percentages. The following table shows denials for “immoral character.” TABLE XIX PER CENT OF DENIALS DUE TO “IMMORAL CHARACTER,” BY RACE ================================= Country of Birth Denials Per Cent --------------------------------- Total cases 1.9 Turkey in Europe 7.6 Denmark 6.9 Sweden 5.0 Canada 4.6 Rumania 3.7 Hungary 3.2 England 2.5 Germany 2.4 Russia 1.7 Italy 1.7 Austria 1.4 Ireland 0.6 ================================= The average percentage of denials for the whole United States for the period 1908-18 on the ground of “immoral character” was 4.0 per cent. With the exception of Turkey in Europe, not one of the “newer” races came up to this average in the year 1913-14, so far as may be judged by this analysis of the court records of more than one in five of the petitions passed upon in that year. Austria, Hungary, Italy, Rumania, all showed a record materially better, and the figures generally show that cause to be negligible, anyway. THE SHOWING AS TO “IGNORANCE”