Money and Fireflies by Oliver Herford — Read

Oh, yes, Money talks. We all know that, and a very noisy talker it is and / very harsh and metallic is its accent. But sometimes money talks in a / whisper, so low that it can hardly be heard.

Then is the time it should be watched, even if spies and dictaphones / must be set upon it. The money whose eloquence, we are told, wished / the shackles of Prohibition on this land of the free, talked with such / a "still small voice" that everybody (except you and me, dear Reader) / mistook it for the voice of conscience.