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| Keywords: Grant Civil Service Reform.jpg en U S President Ulysses S Grant serves a childish-looking and truculently reluctant U S Senator Carl Schurz a spoon of gruel out of a bowl labelled Civil Service Reform Nauseous-looking Senator Lyman Trumbull has already been served and a host of others including Charles Sumner wait anxiously in line Grant is the parent and the senators are all children Horace Greeley and another man look with puzzlement into the bowl of gruel Harper's Weekly February 3 1872 p 109 Creator Thomas Nast 1872-02-03 Caption <div style font-size 120 > CHILDREN CRY FOR IT </div> U S G IF YOU CAN STAND IT I CAN If bad men have secured places it has been the fault of the system established by law and custom for making appointments or the fault of those who recommend for government positions persons not sufficiently well known to them personally or who give letters indorsing the character of office-seekers without a proper sense of the grave responsibility which such a course devolves upon them A civil service reform which can correct this abuse is much desired Grant's Message PD-old-100 Caricatures of Carl Schurz Caricatures of Ulysses S Grant Charles Sumner Lyman Trumbull Thomas Nast Horace Greeley Civil Service Reform 1872 cartoons 1870s political cartoons of the United States | ||||
