--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Garrison, William Lloyd collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 20 number: 8 published: 1917-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'William Lloyd Garrison, "Liberty for All," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 8 (June 1917): 693.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2008unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2008unse start_page: 693 end_page: 693 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2008unse publication_year: 1917 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Liberty for All CONSTANTINOPLE 693 have his preference about its future possessor. There are those who would prefer Germany; on the other hand, there are those who think Russia would take a pride in its development that no other nation would even dream of. As to the pride of its in- habitants, there might not be a very great difference. I can hardly suppress the wish that it might be a truly cosmopolitan city, a free city, a city under the administration of a great inter- national council, a city where its bizarre life could go on un- restrained and unchanged. We know the greater liberty of English institutions, but England has no ambition for it. The choice as to what shall become of Constantinople must rest either with the Germans or with the Russians. The Turks must and will go. That city never will be in the future as it has been in the past. Germany has borne thus far the brunt of the war of the central powers, and could she win, her word would be as effectual as her military supremacy has been dominant. There will be no conditions, when the peace of Europe is signed, that will appeal so strongly to the imagination, as the fate of Con- stantinople. Liberty for All (Selected) They tell me, Liberty, that in thy name I may not plead for all the human race ; That some are born to bondage and disgrace — ■ Some, to a heritage of woe and shame — And some to power supreme, and glorious fame ; With my whole soul I spurn the doctrine base, And, as an equal brotherhood, embrace All people, and for all fair freedom claim! Know this, oh man ! whate'er thy earthly fate — God never made a tyrant nor a slave; Woe, then, to those who dare to desecrate His glorious image — for to all he gave Eternal rights which none may violate ; And by a mighty hand the oppressed He yet shall save ! — Wm. Lloyd Garrison.