| Raymond Cyrus Hoiles | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 24, 1878 Alliance, Ohio, United States |
| Died | 31 October 1970 (aged 91) |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | R.C. Hoiles |
| Occupation | Newspaper publisher |
| Influenced by | Bastiat, Chodorov, Emerson, Lane, Locke, Mises, Rand, Read, Spencer, Spinoza, Thoreau |
| Influenced | McElroy, Mises Riggenbach, Watner |
Raymond Cyrus "R.C." Hoiles (November 24, 1878 – October 31, 1970) was an American newspaper publisher. He was born in Alliance, Ohio and started his career as a subscription solicitor in the local newspaper The Alliance Review. Hoiles and his brother bought among many newspapers Santa Ana Daily Register in 1935. Hoiles became president of Freedom Newspapers in 1950, where he stayed until his death in 1970.
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Hoiles was born November 24, 1878 in Alliance, Ohio to the farmer Samuel Harrison Hoiles and his wife Ann Ladd Hoiles.[1] The family's farm was located on the outskirts of the town, then housing about 4.000 inhabitants.[2] Hoiles went to a school in town, a school he later recalled as "a little red schoolhouse."[3] He told in his later life that he had learned in that school "that the State, or a majority of citizens, had the right to use taxation to support the public school system".[3] According to Carl Watner, Hoiles earned at the time he graduated from high school from his father to "never to ask anybody to do something for him that he was not prepared to do himself".[4] He later studied electrical engineering at Mt. Union College in Ohio, where he worked as a subscription solicitor for The Alliance Review.[4]
Hoiles wanted to abolish public schooling (which he called "taxpayer supported schools") and get the United States out of the United Nations. He opposed Dwight D. Eisenhower and Robert Taft for president because they were seemingly not libertarian enough (though his newspapers never endorsed any candidate for public office).[5][6]
The Register was also one of the few American newspapers that decried the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.[5][6]
In a 1964 interview with The New York Times, Hoiles described himself as a Voluntaryist, stating that "government should exist only to try to protect the rights of every individual, not to redistribute the property, manipulate the economy, or establish a pattern of society."[7]