11 There appeared at Munich, in 1874, an ingenious caricature. It
represented the Prussian chancellor, endeavoring, with a Krupp gun,
which he used as a lever, to overthrow a church emblem of
Catholicism. Satan comes on the scene, and says: “What are you
doing, my friend?” Bismarck, “This church embarrasses me; I want to
upset it.” Satan, “It embarrasses me, too. I have been laboring 1800
years to demolish it. If your Excellency succeeds, I pledge myself
to resign my office in your favor.”