This is a satirical panel is one of the early (maybe the 1st?) printed works by George McManus (1884-1954). It was published on the 1st page of St. Louis Republic September 29th 1900 (there's no sign of McManus works in the previous issues of this newspaper). The great cartoonist - born in St. Louis, Missouri all right - was 16-year-old only! This hilarious panel caricatures Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), not yet President of United States (1901-09), but he was working for President McKinley (he was Governor of New York till December 31st). He was considered an adventurist, a "doggoned cowboy". Really Roosevelt at that time was an ardent imperialist, and the St. Louis Republic furthermore belonged to William Randolph Hearst, who was very acid towards McKinley's government.
Anyway, that's the panel!
McManus' model clearly is the excellent work of Ryan Walker, the Communist Cartoonist, illustrator of satirical panels and some comics strips, too. Both Walker and McManus worked - in the same time - for the St. Louis Republic. Here is a panel by Walker from 1900:
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