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But suppose. for the sake of argument. we admit discrimination. Tile facts justify us in so doing. I now ask you to consider the next table. which deals with naturalization. It is as follows. TABLE 3.-Naturalizatioa record. 1920 Per cent Denmark --------------------------------------------------- 69.2 France -----------------------------------------------------o. 7 Germany -------------------------------------------------- 72. 8 United Kingdom ---------------------------------------------4. 4 Luxembur.- ............---------- 72.5 Netherlands- - -................ . .56. 0 Norway ----------------------------------------------------67.3 Pacific isles ------------------------------------------------- 5. 1 Sweden --------------------------------------------------- 69. 0 Switzerland ------------------------------------------------ 64.9 Albania ---------------------------------------------------- 7.4 Armenia -------------------------------------------------- 28.9 Australia -------------------------------------------------- 49. Austria --------------------------------------------------- 37. Belgium --- -------------------------------- 49.0 Bulgaria ---------------------------------------------------- 12.1 Czechoslovakia --------------------------------------------- 45.8 Finland --------------------------------------------------- 41. 3 Greece ---------------------------------------------------- 16. 8 Hungary -------------------------------------------------- 29.1 Italy ----------------------------------------------------- 28.1 Lithuania ------------------------------------------------- 25.6 Palestine -------------------------------------------------- 37.5 Poland ----------------------------------------------------28.0 Portugal---------------------------------------------------16. 4 Rumania -------------------------------------------------- 41.1 Russia ---------------------------------------------------- 40. 2 Spain ----------------------------------------------------- 9.9 Syria -------------------------------------.-------------- 28. 9 Turkey (Asia) --------------------------------------------- 25.1 Turkey (Europe) ------------------------------------------ 20.2 Yugoslavia ----------------------------------------------- 25. 2 Naturalization of all foreign born. 47.2 per cent (U. S. census. 1920. Vol. II. p. 805). Let us look at it to see how the boys from Italy. from Bulgaria. from Germany. and all of the other countries have treated the hospitality of this country. Observe the countries and opposite each one the percentage of the people here in 1920 which has become naturalized. It starts off with Denmark. where we find that 6).2 per cent from that country have been naturalized. That is. 69 out of every 100 who came from Denmark have become American citizens. France shows a percentage of 56.7.