Our government farm -- President Cleveland finds an effectual protection against the twenty-five-year locusts / Zimmerman.

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Our government farm -- President Cleveland finds an effectual protection against the twenty-five-year locusts / Zimmerman.

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Illustration shows President Cleveland stands directly behind a wall of flames labeled "Civil Service Reform"; behind him, working on the "Government Farm" are members of his cabinet, William C. Endicott with a hoe, Lucius Q.C. Lamar kneeling before a newly planted tree, Thomas F. Bayard working on a tree labeled "State Department", Daniel Manning holding a pot labeled "Treasury", Augustus H. Garland with a shovel, William C. Whitney adding supports to a tree labeled "Navy Department", and William F. Vilas with a watering can. In the foreground, locusts driven back by the smoke and overcome by the fumes lie on the ground and are about to be consumed by the flames, these include "Kelly, Dugro, Voorhees, Blackburn, McLean, Dana, Butler, H.O. Thompson, Chenowith, Higgins, [and] Aquila Jones". Two that seem unaffected are labeled "Hendricks" carrying a banner that states "To the Victors belong the Spoils" and "McLoughlin" [sic].

Illus. from Puck, v. 18, no. 443, (1885 September 2), centerfold.
Copyright 1885 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. He was the first Democrat elected after the Civil War in 1885. Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later. He is the only President in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office. Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans. His will for political reform and fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the era. Cleveland won praise for his honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism. As his second administration began, disaster hit the nation when the Panic of 1893 produced a severe national depression, which Cleveland was unable to reverse. "The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity."

Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.

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01/01/1885
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Zimmerman, Eugene, 1862-1935, artist
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