---
title: 'The Real Issue: McKinley Was Right in 1896'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mckinley-real-issue-poster-1900/
description: Lithograph poster headed 'The Real Issue / McKinley Was Right in 1896'.
section: Collection
---

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# The Real Issue: McKinley Was Right in 1896

Lithograph poster headed 'The Real Issue / McKinley Was Right in 1896'. A drawing sets a crowd outside the 'Mills of the United States' against a figure at the door of the 'United States Mint'; the foot quotes McKinley's August 1896 address to veterans preferring to open the mills to American labour rather than the mints to the world's silver. The Library of Congress records the lithographers; the issuing committee is not named on the sheet.

## Text on the object

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

```
THE REAL ISSUE
McKINLEY WAS RIGHT IN 1896.

UNITED STATES MINT.
MILLS OF THE UNITED STATES.

I do not know what you think about it, but I believe it is a good deal better to open up the mills of the United States to the labor of America than to open up the mints of the United States to the silver of the World.
From Major McKinley's Address to His Old Comrades-in-Arms.—August 12th, 1896.
```

[← Wm. McKinley, Prosperity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mckinley-prosperity-lithograph-1900/) [McKinley Was Right (poster: 1896 poverty, 1900 prosperity) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mckinley-was-right-poster-1900/)

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