It's more manufacture work in the cities with factories
Anvil is a tool used by blacksmiths, and it is the surface on which the object is placed which is worked on with a hammer- stroked with a hammer.
von Bülow meant (in 1899) that Germany will either have to colonize others ( be the hammer) or it would have to risk being colonized itself (being the anvil), hence showing the need for Germany to participate in colonization.
In 1799, Napoleon joined a plot to overthrow the Directors and to set up a new and stronger government. Napoleon took control of the government in a coup d'etat or military takeover. He now had the power to make laws, appoint government ministers and declare war.
They snitched on the opium addicts
He believed in peaceful protesting, he beileved that violence was not the answer. You should read some of his speeches.