He was against tariffs, trusts, Wall Street, and corrupt politics. He was a supporter of prison reform, birth control, and the independence of Ireland, and he wrote on behalf of Eugene Debs and Sacco and Vanzetti.
A youthful Civil War correspondent, Henry Villard had met Helen Frances (Fanny) Garrison at Dr. Dio Lewis's gymnasium where she, wearing a bloomer costume, was participating in the first girls' gymnastic class ever held in Boston. They married on 3 January 1866 and moved to Washington, where Henry Villard was capital correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. The Villards moved to Germany for Henry's health; Oswald Garrison Villard was born there on 13 March 1872. He would later have two brothers and a sister. After an interval in Boston the family moved to New York in 1876, when Henry Villard began the railroad career which would lead him over a period of thirteen years to the presidency of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and then of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Oswald Garrison Villard's admiration for his parents was complete.
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