Judge — May 16, 1925 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This cartoon satirizes enforcement of "Blue Laws" (restrictive moral legislation) against American liberty. Lady Liberty sits writing, labeled with books and documents, while a stern police officer—representing government authority enforcing Blue Laws—commands "No Parking!" The map beneath shows the United States and Mexico, suggesting this is about American domestic policy. The satire equates Blue Law enforcement with parking violations—trivializing heavy-handed moral policing as petty bureaucratic overreach. The cartoon criticizes how government restricts citizens' freedoms through arbitrary rules, treating fundamental liberties like parking spaces that can simply be prohibited. This reflects Judge magazine's libertarian-leaning critique of excessive government regulation of personal behavior and speech.