File:Grant Civil Service Reform.jpg

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Author	Thomas Nast  (1840–1902)      Alternative names Thos. Nast; Nast; Th Nast; Th. Nast Description American-German cartoonist and caricaturist Date of birth/death 27 September 1840  7 December 1902  Location of birth/death Landau, Germany Guayaquil, Ecuador Work location England, Italy, USA Authority file : Q214957 VIAF: 69106390 ISNI: 0000000083916268 ULAN: 500026650 LCCN: n78083448 NLA: 35373399 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q214957
Description	English: 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.
Date	3 February 1872 date QS:P571,+1872-02-03T00:00:00Z/11
Source/Photographer	Harper's Weekly, February 3, 1872, p. 109.

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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.

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