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# Analysis: "Thus Spake Zarathustra" - Judge Magazine Prohibition Satire This page satirizes the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) through competing predictions from prominent figures. The cartoons depict a "Judge" character—personified as a rifle-wielding figure with a liquor bottle for a head—balancing precariously on one leg, visually representing Prohibition's instability. The quotes from Senator Sheppard, Dr. Clarence Wilson, and others debate whether Prohibition will succeed or fail. The satire mocks both prohibitionists' confidence and their opponents' pessimism, suggesting the amendment's fate remains uncertain and ridiculous. The final cartoon shows the Judge celebrating "Hurrah!" alongside a small figure holding "For Me" papers—likely mocking how different groups claimed Prohibition served their interests while the policy's actual consequences remained unpredictable.
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THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA : HERE'S as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amend- ment as there is for a humming bird to fly to Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail."—Senator Morris Sheppard. ‘ “At least thirty: stat es will fail to ratify the Repeal Amend- ment.”—Dr. Clarence True Wilson. “There are eighteen or twenty states opposed to Repeal.”"— Mrs. Ella Boole, “Three fourths of the states are dry."—Dr. E. C. Cherrington. “The country is dry—make no mi Jessie W. Nicholson. ke about that.”—Ars, “Lots of people are satisfied now that they are going to get liquor. If they hold their hands to the sides of their fa until they do, they will have an everlasting plaster on their faces.”— Henry Ford. “There is going to be a revulsion of feeling among the people of this country when they see they are about to lose the ghteenth Amendment."—IVilliam D. Upshaw. “The picture of the S distillery and liquor house and Stripes floating over brewery, erly repugnant to all right feeling. and extremely offensive to patriotic sentiment. It shall not be!” —Bishop William Anderson. “The loss of President Hoover does not mean the loss of the Prohibition Amendment."—Mrs. Henry IV, Peabody. Phe great surging tide of youth will soon balk forever the ion of liquor."—Dr. Danicl A. Poling. leg “Prohibition will prevail."—Andrew J. Volstead. “We expect to rally the nation to uphold Prohibition.” ward Page Gaston. Eed- “The liquor forces will fail to restore the legalized liquor traffic through repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.”—F, Scott McBride. “Have the people speak on Prohibition. The result will be surprising. You will find that the country is not controlled by the wet cities."—Bishep James J, Carnon comicbooks.com