This cartoon depicts George Pullman, perhaps most famous for making millions in the railroad car business, crushing one of his workers between the high rent he charged to live in his utopian work town, and his lowering of his workers wages because of the depression. In the winter of 1893-4, at the start of a depression, Pullman decided to cut wages by 30%. Though he didn't reduce the rent in Pullman, the Utopian town he built for his workers.
This popular Prohibition cartoon displays saloons or alcohol as being the root of poverty, murder, suicide and other evil things. Just like a chicken is the source of eggs; The saloon is the source of poverty, murder, and suicide.