Judge, 1919-12-20 · page 20 of 36
Judge — December 20, 1919 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains multiple brief humorous anecdotes satirizing **Prohibition-era America**. The main cartoon depicts a man hanging upside-down from a rope—"The Awful Come-down"—which serves as a visual metaphor for the social collapse caused by alcohol prohibition. The accompanying jokes mock Prohibition's failures: a restaurant patron discovers he now pays the same total (dollar drink + dollar cover charge) for grape juice as he previously paid for cocktails; another joke suggests illegal "moonshine" should be "rechristened" because it tastes like "bottled sunstroke"; a man reads a golf handbook solely to view Scotch whisky advertisements; and a reference notes prohibition "emptied our jails" but left "plenty of room for the profiteers." The satire targets Prohibition's hypocrisy—it failed to reduce drinking or save money, instead enriching illegal alcohol producers while making legitimate purchases absurdly expensive. Judge's position appears critical of the policy's ineffectiveness and unintended economic consequences.
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