The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-18
ANOTHER QUESTION
FOR SENATORS
TO SOLVE
CITIZEN SCHwENK
RUNS UP AGAINST A CROWD OF
IRATE PAKES-BACON AND FIGS
FOR A STEADY DIET.

| An American citizen named Schwenk
who has a piece of land on the Penin-
| sula at Pearl Harbor, where he raises
hogs and figs, eking out his living with
the care of yachts, taking out pleasure
parties, doing odd jobs and fishing
when the tide and moon wind and wea-
ther serve, is an aggrieved individual.
An an American citizen he feels that
his rights have been trespassed and
trampled upon by Orientals, who, the
other night, drove him from his fishing
grounds by force of superior numbers.
The story goes as follows. A night or
| two back, SChwenk, tired of a diet of
| bacon and figs ad nauseam, hungered
for a juicy mullet. His somewhat num-
erous offspring and the wife of his
bosom also felt the need of a change of
diet Schwenk, in his capacity of fam
! lily provider looked over his sloop, ar
ranged his tackle and sailed from his
wharf after supper, prepared for an all
night spell.
The fiat from Washington that "all
! fisheries in the sea waters of the Terri
tory of Hawaii, not included in any fish
pond or artificial enclosure, shall be
free to all citizens of the United States"
was firmly believed by this citizen-an-
| gler to apply to Pearl HarbOr lochs,
soon to be the harbor of the United
here if anywhere an American citizen
has a natural and inherent right to
! fish" Accordingly he selected a good
pitch and set his lines. Before the
! tinny inhabitants of the lOchs had time
| to note the free lunch being dispensed
| in their vicinity, out from the shore
slipped fishing boat and then another
| filled with irate Cinnamon who ordered
up the lines and informed Schwenk that
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! Schwenk's explanation of his constitu-
tional rights as he saw them was of no
! avail. The Chinese had superior num-
! bers and they insisted on the lines COM
! ing up and afterwards escOrting Sch
wenk back to his ranch with a caution
of "allee same bleakee head, maybe
bimeby alice same shootee."
Schwenk and his family ate bacon
and figs again next morning with dis
contented mind and then Schwenk air
ed his grievances abroad He has a
! large acquaintance. Years ago he was
| a bumboatman in Honolulu harbor.
! Every member of the rowing clubs and
yachting association knows him. He
drives stakes for the regatta course and
earns few dollars on regatta occasions
by sitting out all day in stake boat.
On yacht cruises he sometimes acts as
a ferryman from the peninsula to the
club house.
He got plenty of advice, most of those
to whom he related his tale of woe tell
ing him to make test case of it. This
Schwenk will not do, not caring to risk
the money but he may yet appear be-
fore the senatorial commission as a
living and speaking example of the
manner in which according to Schwenk
the Orientals trample and trespass upon
the rights of an American citizen. II
is thought that the Chinese claim their
right from a lease af vested rights OF
the Ii estate. They We're more vigorous
than explanatory on the occasion and
merely told Schwenk that he had nc
| rights but they had.