Quote – Letter to the editor, New York World by Ward McAllister, a prominent figure in high society.

[A tax on incomes exceeding $4,000 will drive] rich men to go abroad and live.

From a letter to the New York World by Ward McAllister, a prominent figure in high society. Cited by William Jennings Bryan on January 30, 1894; exact date of the letter’s publication not provided. From The Great Tax Wars, p. 141.

Tuesday, January 30, 1894