The State of Nebraska is divided into 93 counties. The two major rivers of Nebraska are the massive Missouri along its eastern borders with Iowa, Missouri, and South Dakota and the Platte River system, a tributary of the Missouri River, that drains a large portion of Nebraska and the Great Plains. The state's lowest point, as marked by an inverted yellow triangle is, situated along the Missouri River at an elevation of 840ft. It is not a mountain after all, but rather is an elevated rise of pasture land (at, 5,426ft). In the elevated high plains of south-western Nebraska stands the state's highest point. Located to the southeast of Scottsbluff is the Chimney Rock - a prominent column of clay and sandstone that resembles a tall factory chimney. In the far north-western corner of the state stands a small area of unusual formations of sandstone and clay known as The Badlands, which then also stretch into the state of South Dakota. In western Nebraska, much of the land is blanketed by the Sand Hills, a large area of rolling sand dunes (formed by wind) and mostly covered by vegetation. In the central plains, the land is more rugged and quite hilly. As observed on the map, the rolling plains (hills) of eastern Nebraska (farm country) are crisscrossed by numerous small rivers and streams. The Great Plains of North America slope east from the Rocky Mountains, extending south from Canada through Nebraska, and into the state of Texas. km, the State of Nebraska is located in the central (Midwest) region of the United States. We are constrained to conclude that the statute as applied is arbitrary and without reasonable relation to any end within the competency of the state.Covering an area of 200,356 sq. No emergency has arisen which renders knowledge by a child of some language other than English so clearly harmful as to justify its inhibition with the consequent infringement of rights long freely enjoyed. 1917D, 973, pointed out that mere abuse incident to an occupation ordinarily useful is not enough to justify its abolition, although regulation may be entirely proper.
Our concern is with the prohibition approved by the Supreme Court. Those matters are not within the present controversy.
Nor has challenge been made of the state's power to prescribe a curriculum for institutions which it supports. The power of the state to compel attendance at some school and to make reasonable regulations for all schools, including a requirement that they shall give instructions in English, is not questioned. Determination by the Legislature of what constitutes proper exercise of police power is not final or conclusive but is subject to supervision by the courts. The established doctrine is that this liberty may not be interfered with, under the guise of protecting the public interest, by legislative action which is arbitrary or without reasonable relation to some purpose within the competency of the state to effect. Without doubt, it denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home and bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and generally to enjoy those privileges long recognized at common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men. While this court has not attempted to define with exactness the liberty thus guaranteed, the term has received much consideration and some of the included things have been definitely stated. The enactment of such a statute comes reasonably within the police power of the state. The obvious purpose of this statute was that the English language should be and become the mother tongue of all children reared in this state. The statute, therefore, was intended not only to require that the education of all children be conducted in the English language, but that, until they had grown into that language and until it had become a part of them, they should not in the schools be taught any other language. It was to educate them so that they must always think in that language, and, as a consequence, naturally inculcate in them the ideas and sentiments foreign to the best interests of this country. To allow the children of foreigners, who had emigrated here, to be taught from early childhood the language of the country of their parents was to rear them with that language as their mother tongue. The result of that condition was found to be inimical to our own safety. The Legislature had seen the baneful effects of permitting for eigners, who had taken residence in this country, to rear and educate their children in the language of their native land. 'The salutary purpose of the statute is clear.
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