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title: Take Your Choice (Judge, 12 May 1900)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/take-your-choice-1900/
description: Colour lithograph by Victor Gillam in Judge, 12 May 1900. McKinley hoists a striped flag on a pole labelled 'Philippines' while Bryan, with an axe, chops…
section: Collection
---

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# Take Your Choice (Judge, 12 May 1900)

Colour lithograph by Victor Gillam in Judge, 12 May 1900. McKinley hoists a striped flag on a pole labelled 'Philippines' while Bryan, with an axe, chops at it; Uncle Sam and a second man watch from a shore labelled 'U.S.'. The caption asks voters to choose a man who will 'maintain them with dignity' or one who will 'cut down Old Glory and make us the laughing-stock of the world'; no third position is offered.

## Text on the object

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

```
Judge
PHILIPPINES [on the ground]
U.S. [on the shore at left]
CUBA [on the far shore]
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
Do you want a man who, having raised the stars and stripes on our new possessions, will maintain them with dignity; or a man who will cut down "Old Glory" and make us the laughing-stock of the world?
COPYRIGHT 1900 BY JUDGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK.     VICTOR GILLAM.
```

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