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.
- Date
- 1900
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Pro-McKinley campaign poster (lithographers Edwards, Deutsch & Heitmann, Chicago)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Mckinley Administration
- Leader
- William Mckinley
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- 1900 US Election
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1900; Library of Congress rights advisory: no known restrictions on publication)
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Text on the object
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.
