Nevertheless, the insurrections of the period proposed few alternatives to the social and economic system that gave them birth. Manifestos and petitions usually focused on recent or threatened violations of what had come to seem as acceptable, though admittedly burdensome,government demands. Communication routes were natural conductors for such protest, as the villages along the right of way were expected to provide the sukego porter service that moved travelers and transport on human and animal backs. Needs for such services increased in late Tokugawa times.