But reflection will immediately show that no appreciable increase, over the economic burdens already carried by the populace under their several national establishments, could come of such a move.
As bearing on this question it is well to call to mind that the contemplated imperial dominion is designed to be very wide-reaching and with very ample powers.

Its nearest historical analogue, of course, is the Roman imperial dominion--in the days of the Antonines--and that the nearest analogue to the projected German peace is the Roman peace, in the days of its best security.

There is every warrant for the presumption that the contemplated Imperial dominion is to be substantially all-inclusive.

Indeed there is no stopping place for the projected enterprise short of an all-inclusive dominion.

And there will consequently be no really menacing outside power to be provided against.
Consequently there will be but little provision necessary for the common defense, as compared, e.g., with the aggregate of such provision found necessary for self-defense on the part of the existing nations acting in severalty and each jealously guarding its own national integrity.
Indeed, compared with the burden of competitive armament to which the peoples of Europe have been accustomed, the need of any armed force under the new regime should be an inconsiderable matter, even when there is added to the necessary modicum of defensive preparation the more imperative and weightier provision of force with which to keep the peace at home.
Into the composition of this necessary modicum of armed force slight if any contingents of men would be drawn from the subject peoples, for the reason that no great numbers would be needed; as also because no devoted loyalty to the dynasty could reasonably be looked for among them, even if no positive insecurity were felt to be involved in their employment.
On this head the projected scheme unambiguously commends itself as a measure of economy, both in respect of the pecuniary burdens demanded and as regards the personal annoyance of military service.
As a further count, it is to be presumed that the burden of the Imperial government and its bureaucratic administration--what would be called the cost of maintenance and repairs of the dynastic establishment and its apparatus of control--would be borne by the subject peoples.