In old age, he remarked that the most important thing he had learned there was "that the State, or a majority of citizens, had the right to use taxation to support the public school system".

Union College in Ohio, where he worked as a subscription solicitor for The Alliance Review,[4] a newspaper edited by his elder brother.

[3] In 1919, shortly after the end of World War I, Hoiles, together with his elder brother, sought to expand their media empire.

He opposed the presidential candidacies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Robert A. Taft, finding their views not sufficiently libertarian.

[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.