455 George St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

From Mark Twain Day By Day:  "Around noon Sam invited the Sydney Daily Telegraph reporter to go with him to be photographed at Falk’s Studio, owned by H. Walter Barnett. Shillingsburg writes that while at the studio Sam made  “remarks on protectionism that would provoke an angry diatribe the next afternoon [Sept. 17] from a rival paper, the Australian Star.”  Note: World Tour Info. Sources: Shillingsburg, Railton, Lorch, MTHHR, Fatout, MTJ: Shillingsburg, Ahluwalia, Philippon" 

"I don’t profess to be learned in matters of this kind...but my instinct teaches me that protection is wrong. Surely it is wrong that on the Pacific slope they should be compelled to bring their iron from the east when they might get it landed at a much lower price direct from foreign ships at their own door [At Home 29 ]."  Note: the remarks landed Sam in the hot water of local politics. See source, p.29. 

Sam had stepped into the middle of a rather heated debate in Australia at this time. It centered around two men, Sir Henry Parkes and Henry George, a Californian that had published a piece titled "Progress and Poverty" in a Sydney newspaper. Mirian Shillingsburg notes in "At Home Abroad" that following the uproar "...the only thing reporters were able to induce Twain to say about politicians was that "It is easy to see that they are able men, and remarkable men, or they would not be in these positions'".