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Most Rev. Dr Harty (presiding) said there was room in Ireland for this society, and he would be willing to give any help he could toward his soread. There had been a certain lack of Catholic public spirit for a long time in Ireland. As a result of persecution Catholics had begun to a great extent to think they were inferior persons, and now they were only emerging from that state. He believed the C.Y.M.S. could do an enormous lot towards helping them to realise their own editor of the "Leaders" for the work he had done to abolish snobbery and Catholic tameness. Mr. Daniels said the bulk of the C.Y.M.S. was periodic Irish and always had been. an assemblage of boys at the Most Rev. Dr. Harty presided. APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN ELOQUENT ADDRESS BY REV. FATHER AUGUSTINE. "Be thoroughly Catholic and thoroughly Irish" was the subject of an eloquent address by Rev. Fr. Augustine, O.S.F.C., to a meeting of young men in the Round Room of the Mansion House, which was crowded. The meeting opened with the singing of "Faith of Our Fathers." Most Rev. Dr. M'Kenna, who presided, said this being the last meeting of the conference, he offered his warmest congratulation to the committee on its success. It was the best they had had up to the present. That indicated that the society was very much alive, was conscious of its powers, was prepared to discharge its responsibilities and to avail to the fullest of the opportunities given to it. Introducing Father Augustine, he said the latter had pleaded the cause of God and of Ireland in many climes and in many tongues with an eloquence, sincerity, and success that placed Irishmen under a deep debt of gratitude to him. FATHER AUGUSTINE'S ADDRESS. Rev. Father Augustine said the thoughts he wished to put before them circled round the words of the great Franciscan Michael O'Clery, "To the glory of God and the honour of Ireland." Having reviewed the struggles of the Irish people through centuries, he said the moral character of the Catholics of Ireland remained unscathed, and their religious practices were more regular than they were 50 years ago. He should like to see a strong, healthy Catholic public opinion always assertive, and, if necessary, even aggressive. If this were a political question he would much rather keep silent than utter a word about it from that platform, but it was a great national, and even an international question, a question of justice and right that should interest everyone, and it was precisely this aspect of it that had captured the whole-hearted sympathy and idealism of America in favour of the freedom of Ireland. Ireland was the talismanic word in America to-day, and the man who first invested it with this power was the brilliant and fearless Cardinal O'Connell of Boston. He had, he said, heard Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago tell the story of Ireland's tyranny before the high altar of his own Cathedral on the 15th July last. He had heard other champions of Ireland's cause in America, and he thanked G…