tariff.  As a result of vigorous and industrious action, it is up to date in the consideration of pending references and is prepared to give prompt attention to any further applications.  This procedure presents an orderly method for correcting inequalities.  I am opposed to any general congressional revision of the tariff.  Such action would disturb industry, business, and agriculture.  It would prolong the depression.

IMMIGRATION AND DEPORTATION

I recommend that immigration restriction now in force under administrative action be placed upon a more definite basis by law.  The deportation laws should be strengthened.  Aliens lawfully in the country should be protected by the issuance of a certificate of residence.

PUBLIC HEALTH

I again call attention to my previous recommendations upon this subject, particularly in its relation to children.  The moral results are of the utmost importance.

CONCLUSION

It is inevitable that in these times much of the legislation proposed to the Congress and many of the recommendations of the Executive must be designed to meet emergencies.  In reaching solutions we must not jeopardize those principles which we have found to be the basis of the growth of the Nation.  The Federal Government must not encroach upon nor permit local communities to abandon that precious possession of local initiative and responsibility.  Again, just as the largest measure of responsibility in the government of the Nation rests upon local self-government, so does the largest measure of social responsibility in our country rest upon the individual.  If the individual surrenders his own initiative and responsibilities, he is surrendering his own freedom and his own liberty.  It is the duty of the National Government to insist that both the local governments and the individual shall assume and bear these responsibilities as a fundamental of preserving the very basis of our freedom.

Many vital changes and movements of vast proportions are taking place in the economic world.  The effect of these changes upon the future can not be seen clearly as yet.  Of this, however, we are sure:  Our system, based upon the ideals of individual initiative and of equality of opportunity, is not an artificial thing.  Rather it is the outgrowth of the experience of America, and expresses the faith and spirit of our people.  It has carried us in a century and a half to leadership of the economic world.  If our economic system does not match our highest expectations at all times, it does not require revolutionary action to bring it into accord with any necessity that experience may prove.  It has successfully adjusted itself to changing conditions in the past.  It will do so again.  The mobility of our institutions, the richness of our resources, and the abilities of our