Cobbett described Jews as a people ???living in all the filthiness of usury and increase,??? and as ???extortioners by habit and almost instinct.??? In Parliament, Cobbett challenged a fellow member to ???produce a Jew who ever dug, or who ever made his own coat or his own shoes, or who did anything at all, except get all the money he could from the pockets of the people.??? In Rural Rides, in 183