Judge — August 21, 1926 — page 14: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This political cartoon depicts indigenous people dancing around a large cauldron labeled "REPEAL," with a dead body in the foreground. The title "When Do We Eat?" makes the grim implication explicit. The cartoon satirizes opposition to Prohibition repeal. Those advocating to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) are depicted as "savages" through racist caricature—a common rhetorical strategy of the era. The dying figure represents Prohibition itself. The satire works on two levels: it mocks repeal advocates as primitive/uncivilized, while simultaneously suggesting their eagerness to "consume" alcohol again (literally and figuratively) makes them cannibalistic or barbaric. This reflects Judge magazine's apparent anti-repeal stance using deeply offensive racial imagery typical of 1930s American political discourse.