Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — CUTTING SAW TEETH. [ARTICLE]

CUTTING SAW TEETH.

Mr. E. Dickinson, of Sheffield, England, was one of the English delegates to the recent meeting of the Don and Steel Institute in New Qork. He has returned home, and has been talking about what he saw in America* He said be visited the saw and file manufactory of Disston & Sons at Tacony, Pa., and found there a machine for cutting and graduating saw teeth. A boy feeds the sheets into the machine, which cuts the teeth at the rate of 1,500 per minute. The success of this machine ir so great that Mr. Dickinson says he observed in the factory packages of saws addressed to England. And we are so foolish as to impose a McKinley tax on ourselves of 40 per cent, on hand saws in order to protect these successful manufacturers, who can sell their saws in England. Worse still, this duty is used to fortify a domestic combination or trust in the safe possession of the “home market."