Arizona republican., 1919-08-23
EBERT SWORN IN
 AS PRESIDENT IF GERMAN EMPIRE
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WIEMAR, Thursday, Aug. 21- Frederick Ebert took the oath as i'm periaI president at the National the ater today A large crowd had gath cred in the square before the theater, where a guard of honor was drawn up, with band playing.
 Herr Ebert arrived in an automobile at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and was received at the main entrance of the theater by the presidents and sec retaries, who conducted him to where Konstantin Fehrenbach, president Of the national assembly, was awaiting him. The organ played as Herr Feh-- enbach led the president to the center of the hall where the presidents tri- bune is situated. The members of the imperial council and assembly rose to welcome Herr Ebert, but the places re- served for the German national and independent socialists were empty.
 Herr Fehrenbach handed the presi- dent the document containing the oath. He then said to the president:
 You came from the people and therefore you will ever be a faithful friend of the working people, to whom you have devoted your life work You will also ever be a shield to the father land, which you have done your best to serve and for the sake of which you have made a terrible and most painful sacrifice, seeing that If four sons you sent to the coiors two have not re- turned. A thorny office in the hardest times the fatherland laid upon your shoulders, but with an easy conscience you can claim to be free from all blame or responsibility in the country's wretched position.
 Sought Progress and Freedom
 You sought to obtain progress and freedom solely by peaceful develop ment, but with defeat the die was cast regarding the old state form and the dynasty. Even those who preserve their love for the old institutions rec ognize that fact, and may 1t be granted you to reunite the entire German peo- pie and lead it back in patriotic mind to order and to work and point the way to the rebirth of the beloved father land.''
 President Ebert in reply said
 This must remain to us if we desire to rebuild the fatherland deep love for the homeland and the tribe out of which each of us sprang, and to this must be joined sacred labor for the whole and the placing of ones self in the empires service. Every contradiction between the whole and the idividual states vanishes there.
 The essence of ou reconstruction shall above all be freedom, but all freedom must have it's law. This you have now established. We will jointly hold on to it. It will give us strength to testify for the new vital principle of the German nation freedom and right"
 President Ebert's address evoked loud applause. Herr Fehrenbach then addresse dthe assembly as follows:
 Farewell Weimar-We're Done"
 Farewell Weimar. Our principal task here was the constitution and in auguration of comprehensive legisla- tion. The assembly's task was to build out of a heap of ruins a new edifice the key to which is now in the people, hands an edifice that offers to all parts of the nation modest but habitable quarters and over which flies the flag of freedom and social justice. It is now for the German peo- pie to manifest it's will to live by the preservation of peace and order by un- wearied labor, Loyalty holding togeth- CT in the newly created state In the hands of the people lies our fate We believe in the German people,
 Loud and repeated applauze greet ed Herr F'ehrenbach's speech.
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