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Show r ! Charleston for finer goods than could bo bought at home. Ho instanced the hostility of the slave aristocracy ot Richmond to industrial enterprise as evidenced by its discouragement ot Abbott Lawrence's project of utilizing the water-power of the James and affording af-fording Virginia the manufacturing wealth Massachusetts was to gain from Lowell and Lawrence. Helper lived to see the full realization realiza-tion of his prophocy that the South needed only to be freed from the curse of 6lave labor to keep pace with the North in commercial and" agricultural agricul-tural advancement obloquy was heaped on him; he had betrayed the South to its Abolitionist foes. The party Toward of a South American consulship removed him from activity of the Three Americas Railway, He wrote other volumes, but he was distinctively dis-tinctively a man of one book, and that one of the most important political tracts of American history. A MAN WHO MADE HISTORY. Tho death by suicide of Hlnton Rowan Helper, former Consul at Buenos Bue-nos Ayres, is reported from Washington. Washing-ton. Helper was eighty years old and a name only, If he were even that.says the New York World. Halt a century ago he was famous in every corner ot the land. A youth of twenty-eight, a North Carolinian of Inferior birth and limited education, Helper published in 1857 a book which stung tho South as even Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had failed to do, and which dealt slavery slav-ery one of the most powerful blows It receUed. In "The Impending Crisis" Helper attacked slavery on us economic side, contrasting the progress pro-gress of the free North with the backwardness back-wardness of Southern development under slave labor; and where Mrs. Stowe's volume bad contained statements state-ments capable of dispute or dlsproor, Helpor's argument was unanswerable. His book was packed with remorseless remorse-less facts vivified with fiery rhetoric. Within four years 160,000 copies were published. The Republican party circulated cir-culated it as a campaign document. Helper addressed his book "to the non-slave-holding whites of the South," comprising the bulk of the Southern white population, and proved how the domination of an ollgrachy of 8.UUU slave-owners had paralyzed industry and put a blight on agricultural growth. He cited the billion-dollar excess ex-cess of farm value in favor of the free States and showed that the hay crop alone of the free States exceeded In value the combined cotton, tobacco, rice, hemp, sugar-cane and hay crops of the slave States; how the maximum price of laud In Kentucky wus less than half the minimum price In Ohio; how there were three times as many people and eight times as many schools in tree Michigan as in slave Arkansas. He set off the Illiteracy of tho South against the Intelligence of tho Nortn, whero were located practically all ot the nation's 300 publishing houses. He recalled the old pre-eminence or the South before the Incubus of slavery slav-ery had been fastened too heavily upon up-on It, when Philadelphia sent to |