Milton Fields.
Milton Fields was a North American newspaper columnist active during the Starkist Terror in the late 1890s.
In 1899 Fields published a column attacking the National Financial Administration under Administrator Julius Nelson. Nelson had revamped the N.F.A. as part of Governor-General Ezra Gallivan's Fifth Point program to encourage business creation. However, Nelson was very conservative in awarding N.F.A. loans to startup businesses, financing only 305 businesses in 1898. According to Fields, the "N.F.A. should be making 30,000 loans and financings a year, and not 300."
It is possible that Fields owed his influence to the popular anger directed at Gallivan during the Starkist Terror. If so, then it is likely that he lost his position as a columnist during the anti-Starkism reaction of 1902.
Sobel's source for Fields' critique of the N.F.A. is Marshall Perkins' Behind the Mask: The Life and Works of Julius Nelson (New York, 1920).