Suomen Mies ja Nainen! Äänestä Kansallista Kokoomuspuoluetta! (political postcard of the National Coalition Party)

A small Finnish party postcard shows a soldier in a fur cap gripping a spear-topped pole from which a large blue-cross flag streams, beside three 'remember when you vote' points and the line 'Vote for the National Coalition Party!' The tell is the flag and soldier attaching the ballot ask to the national cause (transfer), while the appeals to independence 'bought with blood' and to inherited faith and law are stated as duties, not testable pledges.

Date: 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: Kansallinen Kokoomuspuolue (National Coalition Party), Finland
Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: Finland
Medium: Postcard
Issuer type: Party
Regime: Ingman Government
Leader: Lauri Ingman
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Theme: Elections and party politics
Techniques: Transfer Glittering generalities
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto), via Finna, retrieved September 29, 2026
Rights: Openly licensed (CC BY 4.0, per Finnish Heritage Agency via Finna)
Museovirasto (Finnish Heritage Agency), Historian kuvakokoelma, HK8029:20, CC BY 4.0.

Text on the object

Original (Finnish) · read from the image, not independently checked

Suomen Mies
ja Nainen!

Kun käyt vaaliuurnalle,
muista, että:

Valtakunnan itsenäisyys,
verellä ostettu, on tur=
vattava.

Uskonto ja oikeusjärjestys,
isiltä peritty, on pyhänä
pidettävä.

Kansan varoja, raskailla
veroilla koottuja, on
säästäen käytettävä.

Sentähden:

Äänestä Kansallista
Kokoomuspuoluetta!

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

Man and Woman of Finland!

When you go to the ballot box, remember that:

The independence of the realm, bought with blood, must be secured.

Faith and the legal order, inherited from our fathers, must be kept sacred.

The people's funds, raised with heavy taxes, must be used sparingly.

Therefore:

Vote for the National Coalition Party!

Printed in a decorative blackletter-style face; 'tur=vattava' is hyphenated across two lines with '=' as printed.