a month.

This abuse could be abolished in a day by the simple announcement that no planter would hereafter pay more than ten dollars advance.

But it has gone on for years, and the sum paid gets higher every year merely by the planters outbidding each other.
Again, it is possible to ship sugar from some of the Islands direct to San Francisco, and for but little more than is now paid for shipping it to Honolulu.

Half a dozen planters on Hawaii or Maui, clubbing together, could easily get a ship or half a dozen ships to come for their sugar, and thus save five per cent.

on their gross returns, now paid to agents.