Judge — May 3, 1919 — page 15: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This political cartoon satirizes Prohibition enforcement. The drawing shows armed hunters in woods pursuing game labeled "Blind Pigs" and "Blind Tigers"—contemporary slang terms for illegal speakeasies and unlicensed bars where alcohol was sold secretly during Prohibition. The caption predicts that by 1920, "the woods will be full of them," suggesting that despite government efforts to enforce the alcohol ban, illegal drinking establishments would proliferate. The cartoon uses the hunting metaphor to mock law enforcement's futile attempts to eliminate these illegal operations—depicting them as an endless, elusive quarry that authorities cannot successfully eliminate. The satire critiques both Prohibition's impracticality and the government's optimistic confidence in enforcing it.