Indeed, under conditions of settled occupation or subjection, any degree of such depopulation would entail an economic loss, and any well-considered administrative policy would therefore look to the maintenance of the inhabitants of the acquired territories in undiminished numbers and unimpaired serviceability.
The resulting scheme of Imperial usufruct should accordingly be of a considerate, not to say in effect humane, character,--always provided that the requisite degree of submission and subservience ("law and order") can be enforced by a system of coercion so humane as not to reduce the number of the inhabitants or materially to lower their physical powers.

Such would, by reasonable expectation, be the character of this projected Imperial tutelage and usufruct of the nations of Christendom.

In its working-out this German project should accordingly differ very appreciably from the policy which its imperial ambitions have constrained the Japanese establishment to pursue in its dealings with the life and fortunes of its recently, and currently, acquired subject peoples.
The better to appreciate in some concrete fashion what should, by reasonable expectation, be the terms on which life might so be carried on _sub pace germanica_, attention may be invited to certain typical instances of such peace by abnegation among contemporary peoples.
Perhaps at the top of the list stands India, with its many and varied native peoples, subject to British tutelage, but, the British apologists say, not subject to British usufruct.

The margin of tolerance in this instance is fairly wide, but its limits are sharply drawn.

India is wanted and held, not for tribute or revenue to be paid into the Imperial treasury, nor even for exclusive trade privileges or preferences, but mainly as a preserve to provide official occupation and emoluments for British gentlemen not otherwise occupied or provided for; and secondarily as a means of safeguarding lucrative British investments, that is to say, investments by British capitalists of high and low degree.